anthropophagy

1. 1.

   human cannibalism; the eating of human flesh

   Broadercannibalism

Other forms of anthropophagy

plural

anthropophagies·

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 anthropophagy

What does anthropophagy mean?

anthropophagy means "human cannibalism; the eating of human flesh".

How many syllables are in anthropophagy?

anthropophagy has 5 syllables and divides as an-thro-po-pha-gy 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.