The inferior secular senators are ninety-two, containing the ten crown-officers, and eighty-two castellans. The latter are again divided into thirty-three great castellans, and forty-nine little castellans.
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Castellan
//ˈkæstələn//
Synonyms for "castellan" (38 found)
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Related words (19)
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6 entriesTranslations
37 translations across 32 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- kështjellar noun (governor or caretaker of a castle or keep)
Arabic
2 entries- حَاكِم قَلْعَة noun (governor or caretaker of a castle or keep)
- حَاكِم قِلْعَة noun (governor or caretaker of a castle or keep)
Belarusian
1 entries- кашталя́н noun (governor or caretaker of a castle or keep)
Bulgarian
2 entries- кастела́н noun (governor or caretaker of a castle or keep)
- управи́тел на за́мък noun (governor or caretaker of a castle or keep)
Catalan
2 entries- castellà noun (governor or caretaker of a castle or keep)
- castlà noun (governor or caretaker of a castle or keep)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 城主 noun (governor or caretaker of a castle or keep)
Czech
1 entries- kastelán noun (governor or caretaker of a castle or keep)
Danish
1 entries- kastellan noun (governor or caretaker of a castle or keep)
Dutch
1 entries- kastelein noun (governor or caretaker of a castle or keep)
Estonian
1 entries- kastellaan noun (governor or caretaker of a castle or keep)
Finnish
1 entries- linnanherra noun (governor or caretaker of a castle or keep)
French
1 entries- châtelain noun (governor or caretaker of a castle or keep)
Friulian
1 entries- cjastelan noun (governor or caretaker of a castle or keep)
Galician
1 entries- casteleiro noun (governor or caretaker of a castle or keep)
German
1 entries- Kastellan noun (governor or caretaker of a castle or keep)
Greek
2 entries- καστελάνος noun (governor or caretaker of a castle or keep)
- πυργοδεσπότης noun (governor or caretaker of a castle or keep)
Hungarian
1 entries- várnagy noun (governor or caretaker of a castle or keep)
Iranian Persian
1 entries- حاکِمِ قَلْعِه noun (governor or caretaker of a castle or keep)
Italian
1 entries- castellano noun (governor or caretaker of a castle or keep)
Japanese
1 entries- 城主 noun (governor or caretaker of a castle or keep)
Korean
1 entries- 성주 noun (governor or caretaker of a castle or keep)
Marathi
1 entries- कॅस्टेलन noun (governor or caretaker of a castle or keep)
Polish
1 entries- kasztelan noun (governor or caretaker of a castle or keep)
Portuguese
1 entries- castelão noun (governor or caretaker of a castle or keep)
Romanian
1 entries- castelan noun (governor or caretaker of a castle or keep)
Russian
1 entries- кастеля́н noun (governor or caretaker of a castle or keep)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- kastèlān noun (governor or caretaker of a castle or keep)
- кастѐла̄н noun (governor or caretaker of a castle or keep)
Slovak
1 entries- kastelán noun (governor or caretaker of a castle or keep)
Slovene
1 entries- kastelan noun (governor or caretaker of a castle or keep)
Spanish
1 entries- castellano noun (governor or caretaker of a castle or keep)
Swedish
1 entries- kastellan noun (governor or caretaker of a castle or keep)
Ukrainian
1 entries- каштеля́н noun (governor or caretaker of a castle or keep)
Sample sentences
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Castellans, often exercising control over a few villages and half a dozen small lordships, transformed their banal lordships into quasi-sovereign mini-states, independent of royal or comital sanction or control.
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The wave of attacks on the castellans in 1511 followed faction-fighting in Udine, in which castellans and their families were massacred by supporters of the Savorgnan.
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