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Castellated vs Crenellated - What's the difference?

castellated | crenellated |

As adjectives the difference between castellated and crenellated

is that castellated is having turrets or battlements, like a castle while crenellated is having crenellations or battlements.

As a verb crenellated is

past tense of crenellate.

castellated

English

Adjective

(head)
  • Having turrets or battlements, like a castle.
  • * 2004 , , Picador, paperback edition, page 2
    • Finally he walked slowly into a vast Italian space, with towers and castellated roofs, and a sky the colour of dark blue ink, smooth and consistent.
  • (obsolete) Enclosed within a building.
    • a fountain or cistern castellated
    (Johnson)

    Derived terms

    * castellated nut

    Related terms

    * castle * castellation

    crenellated

    English

    Alternative forms

    * crenelated

    Verb

    (head)
  • (crenellate)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having crenellations or battlements
  • Having a series of square indentations

    • Quotations

    * 2001 — , Artemis Fowl , p 52 *: She could see the town below her, nestled on top of a low hill, surrounded by a crenellated wall from the Middle Ages.