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say it: ben-uh-DIK-teen
benedictine is a noun and adjective meaning "a monk or nun belonging to the order founded by Saint Benedict". It is pronounced /ˌbɛnəˈdɪktin/ — ben-uh-DIK-teen. It carries 4 recorded senses.
a monk or nun belonging to the order founded by Saint Benedict
a French liqueur originally made by Benedictine monks
of or relating to Saint Benedict or his works
of or relating to the Benedictines
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 benedictine 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.