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turreted

turreted

7.9
A thing that has one or more small towers like a castle
  • adjective
  • /ˈtʌrɪtɪd/
translation icon : con torretas
  • Children imagined themselves as knights defending the turreted stronghold from invaders.

Examples

  • No one had ever asked Celestine such a question before, and she realized—as she felt breaking in half, deep within her chest, a round smooth stone; a stone such as she'd found when she was a child, which her father cracked open with a hammer, revealing inside a turreted, crystalline city—that she was not an ordinary woman.

    Fiction book (1997)

  • Archetypal, turreted, terrifying.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • I descend from my turreted chamber and run across the patio.

    Fiction book (1999)

  • The wall of Freeze's turreted isolation tower begins to crack.

    Fiction book (1997)

  • The medieval castle was famous for its turreted towers that dominated the landscape.

  • As we approached the old manor, we admired its turreted design and intricate stonework.

Synonyms

towerlike
vsturreted
4.2

A thing that is tall and narrow like a tower

has added small projecting structures rather than a plain vertical form
spired
vsturreted
7.5

Having a tall pointed top like a church roof

describes the whole tall form or added projecting structures, not only the top
steepled
vsturreted
6.1

A building with tall pointed towers like those on a church

applies across many types of structures and forms, not only religious ones

How Castle-Like

turreted
7.9
fortified
5.1

Surface Forms

turreted positive

Morphology

turreted = turret (transparent) = turret + ed

Standard adjectival formation from the noun 'turret' with '-ed' meaning 'having or furnished with turrets', which a B1 learner can readily infer.

Etymology

Turreted comes from turret, a word that meant a 'little tower' and is related to the familiar word tower. So something described as turreted has small tower-like parts rising from it, like the little towers on a castle.