noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
bouncy castle
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
ancient
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Black slabs of indeterminate material had been used to construct the ancient castle .
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Of course she was interested - who wouldn't want to live in an ancient castle ?
bouncy
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Pat is more like a bouncy castle .
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The fun includes wine tasting, vintage car display, bouncy castles , pony rides, music and sumo wrestling.
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The children in particular had a great time with computer games, entertainers and bouncy castles to keep them occupied.
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Often it ends up being about as much fun as trying to have a quiet drink in a bouncy castle .
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Children can enjoy a special treasure hunt, a bouncy castle and Punch and Judy shows.
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Read in studio A hospital consultant is warning of the dangers of bouncy castles .
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A report in today's Which? magazine estimated that in 1989 there were 3,000 accidents related to bouncy castles .
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Activities include a treasure hunt, country dancing, a bouncy castle , kite-making and painting.
great
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Perhaps the best symbol of the paradoxes of late medieval Sussex is the great castle of Herstmonceux.
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They dream of a great castle called Camelot and a round table that could seat 150 knights.
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Walk through the Matthias Gate and this great castle becomes increasingly fascinating.
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It was built on the site of the forum of Hengist's Roman-style town in front of the great castle .
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Pembroke Castle Undoubtedly one of the greatest castles in Britain.
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Also to assist Edward in capturing the great castle at Berwick-on-Tweed.
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The great castle of Montellana-Coronil in Seville.
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His power there was centred on the great castle at Trim, which he held at the king's pleasure.
medieval
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This has opened the way for what has become the largest excavation of a medieval castle yet in Britain.
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History lives on in the towns of Framlingham and Orford each with its own splendid medieval castle .
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On the third night, Sylvia was chosen to accompany a punter into the medieval castle .
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The wooded gardens lie beneath the Verdala Palace, a moated medieval castle .
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She entered the theme room, which was decked out to look like the great hall of a medieval castle .
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Evidently a medieval castle had been built on the site of an Iron Age fort.
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He had looked forward to living in a medieval castle and felt slightly cheated.
norman
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Nottingham is an ancient city with a Norman castle and an excellent variety of shops, theatre and other modern amenities.
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It was begun, probably on the site of a small Norman castle , in the 1430s by Sir William ap Thomas.
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This is an imposing structure, somewhat resembling in its frontage on two streets the keep of a Norman castle .
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Ignoring them, I made my way to the Norman castle .
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In one of them, I could see the broken towers of a Norman castle .
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Cardiff Castle A Roman fort chosen as the site for a Norman castle .
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Totnes, 7 miles away, is a pretty, busy town with an Elizabethan market and Norman castle .
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It cut across the boundary between the two hundreds and was later centred on the Norman castle at Nether Stowey.
old
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Now no one could enter or leave the old castle without fighting me.
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No group of historic buildings symbolises a nation's history more than this old royal castle .
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He strengthened old castles and built new ones.
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At that moment the door of the old castle opened and De Gautet appeared beside me.
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Sapt had hidden me in a room in the old castle , and he and Fritz brought her to me there.
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Like many old castles it was, and indeed still is a prison, and courts have been held there since 1176.
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Should you wish, there are expeditions to wonderful old castles , museums and monuments, as well as shopping centres.
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To the decaying line of older castles and fortified manor houses he added one new prestige building, Camber Castle.
royal
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A must is probably the most spectacular and romantic royal castle in the world - Neuschwanstein.
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No group of historic buildings symbolises a nation's history more than this old royal castle .
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From 1321 to 1325 he was also in charge of works at the royal castle there.
ruined
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At seventeen, he announces that he wants to spend his whole life in a ruined castle by the sea.
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Combe Sydenham country park has beautiful walks and tasty trout for sale whilst Stogursey boasts a moated ruined castle and Norman church.
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Abergavenny is a bustling market town with a museum in the grounds of a ruined castle .
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Tintagel with its ruined castle is closely associated with the legend of King Arthur.
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We drove through placid scenery, past a ruined castle and so into Tuam.
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St Andrews still has an attractive, if not overworked, little harbour below the gaunt shapes of ruined castle and cathedral.
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It has a ruined castle , an interesting local history museum, and its own school of painters.
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That was in a bay overlooked by a ruined castle straight out of Macbeth.
■ NOUN
sand
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Finally, the teacher took a bucket and made a sand castle on top.
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The result: a piece as solid and dependable as a sand castle in high tide.
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Bathing is safe and children can have lots of fun, paddling and shrimping in the rock pools and making sand castles .
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I had arrived at the heart of the gay section. Sand castles had gone condo in this neighborhood.
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After playgroup we drove to Sagaponack to swim, make sand castles and kick around a soccer ball.
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They overflow with art projects and dragon slayers, with fireflies and sand castles , with tents and mysterious bones.
wall
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At Perth in January 1313 Bruce himself was second to scale the castle wall after wading neck-high through icy cold water.
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Drifts three or four feet high lay within the castle walls .
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Troops may be moved on to a castle wall , rocky pinnacle or other elevation including a Spiral Stair.
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Agnes leaned against the castle wall , which was streaming with water, and fought for breath.
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One of the earliest explosive devices was the petard, which was a mine used to breach castle walls or gates.
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The majestic castle walls , with their varying bands of stone, were modelled on the walls of Constantinople.
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The seagulls bored on the castle wall .
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Torches were already flaring on the castle walls when the first wagons carrying the dismantled mangonels rumbled across the drawbridge.
■ VERB
build
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This is the shortest par-three but is guarded by enough sand to build at least a four-bedroom castle .
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His greatest patron was a spendthrift young king who built too many castles and may have been nuts.
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She built castles , real ones that still exist, in Poitou.
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Early prisons were built in castles or large houses and the former contained state prisoners.
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Nothing daunted, the people of Rapperswil built the castle again within 4 years.
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Drogo built his castle high upon the mound at Skipsea Brough surrounded by ditches and earthworks.
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When White and Davies were building their castles in the Midlands, the game was still mostly amateur.
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I resolved to pull myself together. to build a castle in myself.
hold
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Whether or not there was ever such an owner, there is no doubt about the family which held the castle longest.
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My brother holds our castle for Matilda and sent me here to serve her.
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So my constable continues to hold the castle , let the King garrison the title as strongly as he will.
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Even if we're not being followed, Matilda's men hold most of the castles in this part of the country.
live
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He had lived in castles and palaces, and been attended by courtiers, soldiers and valets.
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Jack climbed the beanstalk, where he found a giant woman living in a castle .
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Lord Douglas lived in the castle , and his young son, William, liked me.
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He lives in a little castle , where he spends the whole day.
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His eldest son James, who had been living in Stirling castle , was persuaded to join the malcontents.
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People in Stroud have criticised a system which pays the mortgage of anybody living in a castle .
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The line is now extinct but at the time we arrived they had lived in the castle for some five hundred years.
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I have always dreamt of living in a castle .
visit
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Rather than wandering around aimlessly, the ovoid twosome decided to visit a nearby castle to obtain directions.
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Guests also take a short river cruise on the Rhine, and visit famous castles and cathedrals.
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There is plenty of time to look around Stratford-upon-Avon or leave the train at Warwick to visit the historic castle .
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The day after we first visited the castle , my sister and I were treated to a walk along the cliffs.
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Blanche propped her head on her elbow and asked when Nicola came out to visit the castle .
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Within 15 miles you can visit numerous abbeys, castles , historic houses and craft centres.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an Englishman's home is his castle
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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His greatest patron was a spendthrift young king who built too many castles and may have been nuts.
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Jack climbed the beanstalk, where he found a giant woman living in a castle .
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Since the crow believed that this was Kay, the crow and Gerda traveled to the castle .
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The castle itself, created by a millionaire in the early part of this century, can be toured.
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The castle , rising on a single outcrop of rock from the plain. was built very largely of books.
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To live in such a castle meant demands on the purse.