burnside

Other forms of burnside

plural

burnsides·

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 burnside

What does burnside mean?

burnside means "United States general in the American Civil War who was defeated by Robert E. Lee at the Battle of Fredericksburg (1824-1881)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in burnside?

burnside has 2 syllables: burn-side. The stress falls on "burn". In IPA it is /ˈbɝnˌsaɪd/.

What is another word for burnside?

Close synonyms include A. E. Burnside, Ambrose Everett Burnside, sideburn, mutton chop, side-whiskers. 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 burnside a common word?

burnside is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with burnside?

46 words rhyme with burnside. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.