châteaux

See also: chateaux

English

Alternative forms

• chateaux

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈʃæːtəʊ(z)/, /ʃæːˈtəʊ(z)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ʃæːˈtoʊ(z)/

Noun

châteaux

1. plural of château
   • 1877 September 15, F.P. Verney, “Pictures in Holland, on and off Canvas”, in Littell’s Living Age, volume 134, number 1735:

     Few cottages, no châteaux, hardly any inhabitants, were to be seen; it seemed as if we were reaching the very end of the world.

   • 1904, Alberto Santos-Dumont, My Airships, page 15:

     Villages and woods, meadows and châteaux, pass across the moving scene, out of which the whistling of locomotives throws sharp notes.

   • 2004, Alexis Lipsitz Flippin et al., Frommer’s Europe, page 329:

     When royalty and nobility built châteaux throughout this valley during the Renaissance, sumptuousness was uppermost in their minds.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃa.to/ ~ /ʃɑ.to/

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Noun

châteaux m

1. plural of château