aesculapian

1. 1.

   of or belonging to Aesculapius or the healing art

   Synonymsmedical

Questions about aesculapian

What does aesculapian mean?

aesculapian means "of or belonging to Aesculapius or the healing art".

How many syllables are in aesculapian?

aesculapian has 6 syllables and divides as a-e-scu-la-pi-an under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for aesculapian?

Close synonyms include medical. 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 aesculapian a common word?

aesculapian 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.