anglo-catholic

1. 1.

   supporting the Anglican Church

Questions about anglo-catholic

What does anglo-catholic mean?

anglo-catholic means "supporting the Anglican Church".

How many syllables are in anglo-catholic?

anglo-catholic has 5 syllables and divides as an-glo--ca-tho-lic 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.

Is anglo-catholic a common word?

anglo-catholic 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.