bodoni

Other forms of bodoni

plural

bodonis·

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 bodoni

What does bodoni mean?

bodoni means "Italian printer who designed the Bodoni font (1740-1813)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bodoni?

bodoni has 3 syllables: bo-do-ni. The stress falls on "bo".

What is another word for bodoni?

Close synonyms include Gianbattista Bodoni, modern, modern font, Bodoni font. 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 bodoni a common word?

bodoni 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.