areopagus

Questions about areopagus

What does areopagus mean?

areopagus means "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". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in areopagus?

areopagus has 5 syllables and divides as a-re-o-pa-gus 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.

Is areopagus a common word?

areopagus 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.