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: an-vers. The stress falls on "an".

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.