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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
areopagus is a noun meaning "a hill to the to the west of the Athenian acropolis where met the highest governmental council of ancient Athens and later a judicial court". It carries 2 recorded senses.
the highest governmental assembly in ancient Athens (later a judicial court)
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for areopagus come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.