CASTILE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Castile mean? 

• CASTILE (noun)
  The noun CASTILE has 1 sense:

1. a region of central Spain; a former kingdom that comprised most of modern Spain and united with Aragon to form Spain in 1479

  Familiarity information: CASTILE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CASTILE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A region of central Spain; a former kingdom that comprised most of modern Spain and united with Aragon to form Spain in 1479

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Castile; Castilla

Instance hypernyms:

district; dominion; territorial dominion; territory (a region marked off for administrative or other purposes)

Holonyms ("Castile" is a part of...):

Espana; Kingdom of Spain; Spain (a parliamentary monarchy in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula; a former colonial power)

 Context examples 

There too is the banner of Castile amid yonder sparkling squadron which heads the main battle.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There, beneath them, was the blood-bathed hill, and from the highest pinnacle there flaunted the yellow and white banner with the lions and the towers of the royal house of Castile.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You make my exile so like a home that I forget at times that I am not in very truth back in Castile.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“His majesty here will doubtless order that you have this dish hotly seasoned when we are all safely in Castile.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Nay, nay, the camp is in arms, and it would be rank madness. Who are you, fellow?” he added in Spanish, “and how is it that you dare to wear the arms of Castile?”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

By Saint James! said he, if ye fall this day ye fall by no mean hands, for the flower of the knighthood of Castile ride under the banner of Don Tello, with the chivalry of Asturias, Toledo, Leon, Cordova, Galicia, and Seville.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

From within came wild screamings and the clash of steel, and then the two emerged once more, their swords and forearms reddened with blood, while John bore over his shoulder the senseless body of a man whose gay surcoat, adorned with the lions and towers of Castile, proclaimed him to belong to the royal house.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Far off, in the centre of the camp, a huge palace of red and white silk, with the royal arms of Castile waiving from the summit, announced that the gallant Henry lay there in the midst of his warriors.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When that happy day comes, said Pedro, then Spain shall be to you as Aquitaine, and, be your project what it may, you may ever count on every troop and every ship over which flies the banner of Castile.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But we are more like to hawk at the Spanish woodcock than at the French heron, though certes it is rumored that Du Guesclin with all the best lances of France have taken service under the lions and towers of Castile.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)