artaxerxes

Other forms of artaxerxes

plural

artaxerxeses·

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.

Questions about artaxerxes

What does artaxerxes mean?

artaxerxes means "king of Persia who subdued numerous revolutions and made peace with Sparta (?-359 BC)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in artaxerxes?

artaxerxes has 4 syllables: ar-tax-er-xes. The stress falls on "tax".

What is another word for artaxerxes?

Close synonyms include Artaxerxes II, Artaxerxes I. 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 artaxerxes a common word?

artaxerxes 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.