brahman

Other forms of brahman

plural

brahmans·

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 brahman

What does brahman mean?

brahman means "a member of a social and cultural elite (especially a descendant of an old New England family)". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in brahman?

brahman has 2 syllables: brah-man. The stress falls on "brah". In IPA it is /ˈbɹɑmən/.

What is another word for brahman?

Close synonyms include brahmin, brahmin, brahmin, Brahma, Brahmin. 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 brahman a common word?

brahman 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.