antwerp

1. 1.

   a busy port and financial center in northern Belgium on the Scheldt river; it has long been a center for the diamond industry and the first stock exchange was opened there in 1460

   SynonymsAntwerpenAnvers

   Broadercityport

   Part ofBelgium

Other forms of antwerp

plural

antwerps·

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 antwerp

What does antwerp mean?

antwerp means "a busy port and financial center in northern Belgium on the Scheldt river; it has long been a center for the diamond industry and the first stock exchange was opened there in 1460".

How many syllables are in antwerp?

antwerp has 2 syllables: an-twerp. The stress falls on "an". In IPA it is /ˈæntwɚp/.

What is another word for antwerp?

Close synonyms include Antwerpen, Anvers. 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 antwerp a common word?

antwerp is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.