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say it: boh-LIN
boleyn is a noun meaning "the second wife of Henry VIII and mother of Elizabeth I; was executed on a charge of adultery (1507-1536)". It is pronounced /boʊˈlɪn/ — boh-LIN. It carries one recorded sense.
the second wife of Henry VIII and mother of Elizabeth I; was executed on a charge of adultery (1507-1536)
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 boleyn 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.