barbados

Other forms of barbados

plural

barbadoses·

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 barbados

What does barbados mean?

barbados means "a parliamentary democracy on the island of Barbados; former British colony; a popular resort area". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in barbados?

barbados has 3 syllables: bar-ba-dos. The stress falls on "ba". In IPA it is /bɑɹˈbeɪdoʊs/.

Is barbados a common word?

barbados is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.