antwerpen

Questions about antwerpen

What does antwerpen mean?

antwerpen 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 antwerpen?

antwerpen has 3 syllables and divides as an-twer-pen 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 antwerpen?

Close synonyms include Antwerp, 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 antwerpen a common word?

antwerpen 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.