arquebus

Questions about arquebus

What does arquebus mean?

arquebus means "an obsolete firearm with a long barrel".

How many syllables are in arquebus?

arquebus has 3 syllables and divides as arq-ue-bus 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 arquebus?

Close synonyms include harquebus, hackbut, hagbut. 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 arquebus a common word?

arquebus 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.