Let us devote this material to a word that is not completely understood by many, which has several both similar and radically different meanings. Let's start with a number of its definitions.

What is a casemate?

Casemated room, casemate is:

• Strong vaulted structures made of stone inside a number of fortifications (fortresses, pillboxes, forts, etc.), protected from bullets, fire, explosions.
• Capital large dugouts under the rampart.
• Premises in the fortress where criminals are kept.
• A separate, separately built cell or room in a prison.
• Stone vaulted rooms in which prisoners serve their sentences.
• A number of premises in defensive structures, built specifically to protect both fighters and weapons, ammunition, food, etc.
• An armored chamber on a military vessel where the ship's artillery guns are installed. Also used to shelter combat personnel from fire.
• In tsarist Russia and many bourgeois countries, until the beginning of the 20th century, this was the name given to special cells in fortresses where political prisoners were kept.
• Prison in the most general sense.
• The outdated meaning is a cell where especially dangerous criminals serve their sentences.

Origin and synonyms

To understand what a casemate is, familiarity with the origin of this word also helps to some extent. It comes from the French casemate, which, in turn, has Italian roots: cas, casa -"hut", "house"; mautt, matto -“dark”, “obsessed”, “matte”. Other dictionaries say that the original source may be the Italian word casamatta, which can literally be translated as “madhouse”; in another meaning - “blind building”, “invisible fortification”.

To tell what a casemate is, in other words, synonyms of this term will help:

• jail;
• camera;
• dungeon;
• premises;
• prison;
• bullpen;
• jail;
• prison;
• caponier;
• punishment cell;
• dugout;
• blockhouse.

Casemates and WoW

Those who play the popular online game World of Warcraft are familiar with such an underground location as the “Casemates of the Guardians,” the passage of which requires level 110. The procedure for launching “Casemates of the Guardians” is described in many video guides, as it raises many questions among gamers. Upon completion, the player receives 75 so-called reputations with the Kirin Tor and 100 with the Guardians.

What is a casemate in a few words? This concept has three main meanings: a room within a fortification structure, protected from fire and bombing; an armored chamber for placing artillery and protecting soldiers on ships; a type of especially fortified prison for different categories of criminals.

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The meaning of the word casemate

casemate in the crossword dictionary

Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language, Dal Vladimir

Explanatory dictionary of the Russian language. D.N. Ushakov

casemate

casemate, m. (from Italian casamatto).

Prison premises for important criminals (official obsolete).

Prison in general (colloquially).

Concrete cover from artillery and air force fire.

Explanatory dictionary of the Russian language. S.I.Ozhegov, N.Yu.Shvedova.

casemate

A room in defensive structures protected from enemy fire, previously a closed room on military ships for guns, machine guns and personnel (special).

In the old prisons [original. in fortresses, castles]: solitary confinement for prisoners. To languish in a dungeon.

adj. casemate, -aya, -oe.

New explanatory dictionary of the Russian language, T. F. Efremova.

casemate

1. A room for protecting personnel, weapons and ammunition from enemy fire in defensive structures.

   Armored room on ships for installing artillery guns and protecting personnel.

outdated Solitary confinement in a fortress for holding political prisoners.

Encyclopedic Dictionary, 1998

casemate

CASEMATE (French: casemate)

a room in a closed fortification that protects the people and weapons in it from enemy fire.

Armored enclosed space on ships (in the 19th - early 20th centuries) for installing guns, storing shells, etc.

Until the beginning 20th century solitary confinement in prison.

Casemate

(French casemate, from Italian casamatta),

a room in a defensive structure that protects the people in it from being hit directly by shells and aircraft bombs. Prototypes of combat have been known since ancient times; combat developed greatly with the improvement of artillery and the advent of aviation. Depending on their purpose, missiles are called combat, observation, residential, projectile, etc. All modern defensive structures that have a casing are usually called casemated, in contrast to open ones.

Armored enclosed space on ships for installing guns, storing shells, protecting people from being hit by enemy fire. Widely used on artillery ships in the 2nd half of the 19th ≈ 1st half of the 20th centuries. On modern warships, due to changes in their design features (in particular, armor protection), armor has almost completely lost its importance.

Until the beginning of the 20th century, solitary confinement in a prison located in a former fortress, for the detention of mainly political prisoners.

Wikipedia

Casemate

Casemate or casemated room :

• a separate internal room in a fortified fortification structure (fortress, fort, bunker, battery, etc.), protected from enemy artillery fire and bombing and serving to house a garrison, ammunition depots, food, etc., and sometimes weapons;
• a protected room on an armored ship for placing artillery pieces;
• When a fortress is used as a prison, its cells are also called casemates.

Casemate (group)

"Casemate"- a Russian rock band, assembled in Moscow in March 1996 by poet and musician Igor Shamarin after he left the Apocrypha group on his own initiative. The Kazemat team existed until September 2000, changing three members. The most professional line-up was the formation formed in February 1998: Igor “Harris” Shamarin.

The style of the group transformed depending on the trends of the time and the appearance of new members in the group: from classic hard rock, heavy rhythm and blues and folk rock at the beginning of their creative career to post-grunge, alternative rock, funk and a bias towards jazz fusion at the end of creative activity. The group recorded three albums, the most famous of which is “Theater of Stray Souls” - a concert recording made at the New Year festival in Tyumen on December 27, 1999.

Examples of the use of the word casemate in literature.

Enraged, Aurangzeb imprisoned his father in casemate and kept him there until his death.

One fine day everything burns down - both nitrate originals and acetate copies, the whole casemate.

Then he began to talk at length about pillboxes, casemates, embrasures and the density of fire per square meter, so Ashmarin tried to eat quickly and refused fruit.

Having sternly reprimanded me and my friends for superficiality, he began to corrosively inquire: to whom did I tell about him and his casemates in general and about today’s visit to him in particular?

I want the whole society to punish the culprit, so I propose that she spend a quarter of an hour with each of us in the deepest casemate dungeons, so that after this she would lie in bed for a year, and let Severino be the last to have fun with her.

He managed to give Sinesius a sword and, having agreed during his stay in the vicinity of the castle with several servants, chose the hour when they were visiting the prisoner, and so decisively rushed after them into casemate Sinesia that Kondoidi’s servants, who came running to hear the cry, were unable to detain the young men.

Last night in the magistrate's office casemate In these thoughts, Salavat went sleepless.

Shocked by terrible disappointment, people weakened their will, and the Mortus again found menial work: they dragged the dead, collecting them in the courtyards and casemates.

A random mosquito that foolishly flew into the gloomy casemate and not understanding where fate had taken him, he sat down on his bleeding cheek.

Three people, united by a common destiny, naturally strive to be frank with each other, to tell about the paths that lead a person to casemate.

And before Ivanka could enter casemate, he heard the questioner threaten someone: “If you don’t say good, the executioner will check!”

Apparently, this was a pot or jug ​​of the kind that was brought by long taskuns from the neighboring city, who twice a year delivered tightly closed baskets to huge adobe casemates, located under the Ledges of Prayers.

Indeed, why else would it be necessary to prepare a room for an arrested person when Saint-Mars had only one prisoner in custody - Fouquet - and there were enough free ones casemates?

Both Leskov's Lefty and the amber affairs of master Toussaud had a sad fate: after accusing Gottfried of treason, he was imprisoned as a serf. casemate, and Schlüter was exiled outside Prussia.

Jacobsen spent five years in windowless casemates The Pentagon is responsible for drawing up staff plans, distributing industrial orders and budgetary allocations.

Dictionary of Military Terms

Casemate

a room in closed fortifications that protects people and weapons from the effects of enemy fire. K- can be combat, observation, residential, projectile, etc.

Dictionary of forgotten and difficult words of the 18th-19th centuries

Casemate

, A , m.

Solitary confinement in a fortress for holding political prisoners.

* His duty was to keep political criminals and criminals in dungeons and solitary confinement.. // Lev Tolstoy. War and Peace // *

Naval Dictionary

Casemate

1) a room in defensive structures that protects people and weapons from the effects of enemy fire.

2) Armored enclosed space on ships (in the 19th - early 20th centuries) for installing guns, storing ammunition and protecting personnel.

Efremova's Dictionary

Casemate

1. m.
   1. :
      1. A room for protecting personnel, weapons and ammunition from enemy fire in defensive structures.
      2. Armored room on ships for installing artillery guns and protecting personnel.
   2. outdated Solitary confinement in a fortress for holding political prisoners.

encyclopedic Dictionary

Casemate

(French casemate),

1. a room in a closed fortification that protects the people and weapons in it from enemy fire.
2. Armored enclosed space on ships (in the 19th - early 20th centuries) for installing guns, storing shells, etc.
3. Until the beginning 20th century solitary confinement in prison.

Ushakov's Dictionary

Casemate

caseme t, casemate, husband.(from Italian casamatto).

1. Prison facility for important criminals ( official outdated).

| Prison in general ( simple).

2. Concrete cover from artillery and air force fire.

Ozhegov's Dictionary

KAZEM A T, A, m.

1. A room in defensive structures protected from enemy fire, a previously closed room on military ships for guns, machine guns and personnel (special).

2. In the old prisons [original. in fortresses, castles]: solitary confinement for prisoners. To languish in a dungeon.

| adj. casemate, oh, oh.

Architectural Dictionary

Casemate

in military architecture, a closed fortified point with loopholes for small arms or artillery weapons.

(Architecture: An Illustrated Guide, 2005)

1. A vaulted stone structure under the ramparts (1), designed for shelter from overhead fire and for storing ammunition.

2. A vaulted room for especially dangerous criminals, in a prison or fortress.

(Terms of Russian architectural heritage. Pluzhnikov V.I., 1995)

(it. casamatta - a room with thick walls) a room in the thickness of the ramparts, between scarp and valganga walls. In flanks of the bastions casemates with embrasures were built for the installation of guns. In Rus', casemates were called battles, or pechurami. Casemates arranged in curtains, served to store ammunition, weapons, and to accommodate a garrison.

(Dictionary of architectural terms. Yusupov E.S., 1994)

Sentences containing "casemate"

That they would be grabbed here and, without any reason, dragged into a dungeon with rats, ransacked, and had their documents checked at every corner.

CASEMATE

CASEMATE

(French casemate, from Italian cas - hut, and mautt - dark). - Casemated premises. 1) stone buildings with vaults in the fortress, protected from fire and bombs; the fortress premises under the rampart are vast dugouts. 2) premises for criminals in the fortress.

Dictionary of foreign words included in the Russian language. - Chudinov A.N., 1910 .

CASEMATE

1) a room with vaults under the ramparts, completely protected from fire and gunshots; 2) a separate cell (room) in prison.

A complete dictionary of foreign words that have come into use in the Russian language. - Popov M., 1907 .

CASEMATE

French casemate, it. casamatta, from it. casa, hut, and matto, dark. Stone buildings with vaults in the fortress, intended to contain criminals.

Explanation of 25,000 foreign words that have come into use in the Russian language, with the meaning of their roots. - Mikhelson A.D., 1865 .

Casemate

(fr. casemate it. casamatta)

1) in defensive structures - a room for the protection of personnel, weapons and ammunition;

2) an armored room on the ship for installing naval artillery guns and protecting personnel;

3) placement in a fortress for holding political prisoners (in pre-revolutionary Russia and bourgeois countries).

New dictionary of foreign words. - by EdwART,, 2009 .

Casemate

casemate, m. [from it. casamatto]. 1. Prison premises for important criminals (official obsolete). || Prison in general (colloquially). 2. Concrete cover from artillery and air force fire.

Large dictionary of foreign words. - Publishing house "IDDK", 2007 .

Casemate

A, m. (fr. casemate it. casamatta letters madhouse).
1. In defensive structures: a room for the protection of personnel, weapons and ammunition.
|| Wed. dugout, blockhouse.
2. On a warship: armored room for installing artillery pieces and protecting personnel.
3. outdated A room in a fortress for holding political prisoners.
Casemate- related to casemates 1-3, casemates.
|| Wed. cell, punishment cell.

Explanatory dictionary of foreign words by L. P. Krysin. - M: Russian language, 1998 .

See what "CASEMAT" is in other dictionaries:

- (Casemate) an armored room on a ship in which anti-mine caliber guns are installed. Casemate (location). Samoilov K.I. Marine dictionary. M. L.: State Naval Publishing House of the NKVMF of the USSR, 1941 Casemate ... Marine Dictionary

casemate- a, m. casemate f., germ. Casematte, it. kasamatta. 1. special Long-term construction in fortresses. forts or batteries for protection from bombs and shells, for installing guns and machine guns, storing ammunition, etc. BAS 1. And to the fortresses ... ... Historical Dictionary of Gallicisms of the Russian Language

Prison, government apartment; prison, caponier, jail, cell, prison, dungeon, prison Dictionary of Russian synonyms. casemate n. prison dungeon jail prison jail prison ... Synonym dictionary

CASEMATE, see barracks. Dahl's Explanatory Dictionary. IN AND. Dahl. 1863 1866 … Dahl's Explanatory Dictionary

- (French casemate) 1) a room in a closed fortification that protects the people and weapons in it from enemy fire. 2) An armored closed room on ships (in the 19th and early 20th centuries) for installing guns, storing shells... ... Big Encyclopedic Dictionary

CASEMATE, casemate, man. (from Italian casamatto). 1. Prison premises for important criminals (official obsolete). || Prison in general (simple). 2. Concrete cover from artillery and air force fire. Ushakov's explanatory dictionary. D.N. Ushakov. 1935 1940 ... Ushakov's Explanatory Dictionary

CASEMAT, huh, husband. 1. A room in defensive structures protected from enemy fire, a previously closed room on military ships for guns, machine guns and personnel (special). 2. In old prisons [original. in fortresses, castles]:… … Ozhegov's Explanatory Dictionary

casemate- deaf (P.Y.); stuffy (P.Ya.) Epithets of literary Russian speech. M: Supplier of His Majesty's court, the Quick Printing Association A. A. Levenson. A. L. Zelenetsky. 1913… Dictionary of epithets

Wiktionary has an article “casemate” Casemate or casemate room (French casemate ... Wikipedia

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