anvers

Questions about anvers

What does anvers mean?

anvers 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 anvers?

anvers has 2 syllables and divides as an-vers 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 anvers?

Close synonyms include Antwerpen, Antwerp. 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 anvers a common word?

anvers 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.