caesarean

Other forms of caesarean

plural

caesareans·

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 caesarean

What does caesarean mean?

caesarean means "relating to abdominal delivery". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in caesarean?

caesarean has 3 syllables: cae-sa-rean. The stress falls on "cae". In IPA it is /ˈkeɪsɚˌin/.

What is another word for caesarean?

Close synonyms include cesarean, cesarian, caesarian, Caesarian, cesarean delivery. 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 caesarean a common word?

caesarean 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 caesarean?

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