beda

Other forms of beda

plural

bedas·

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 beda

What does beda mean?

beda means "(Roman Catholic Church) English monk and scholar (672-735)".

How many syllables are in beda?

beda has 2 syllables: be-da. The stress falls on "be". In IPA it is /ˈbeɪdə/.

What is another word for beda?

Close synonyms include Bede, Saint Bede, St. Bede, Baeda, Saint Baeda. 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 beda a common word?

beda 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.