forecastle

1. 1.

   living quarters consisting of a superstructure in the bow of a merchant ship where the crew is housed

   Synonymsfo'c'sle

   Broaderliving quarters

   Part ofship

Other forms of forecastle

plural

forecastles·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about forecastle

What does forecastle mean?

forecastle means "living quarters consisting of a superstructure in the bow of a merchant ship where the crew is housed".

How many syllables are in forecastle?

forecastle has 4 syllables: fo-re-cas-tle. The stress falls on "re".

What is another word for forecastle?

Close synonyms include fo'c'sle. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is forecastle a common word?

forecastle is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.