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say it: AY-tuhn
aten is a noun meaning "the sun (or solar disc) which was the deity of a monotheistic cult under the Pharaoh Akhenaten". It is pronounced /ˈeɪtən/ — AY-tuhn. It carries one recorded sense.
the sun (or solar disc) which was the deity of a monotheistic cult under the Pharaoh Akhenaten
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 aten come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.