calvary

Other forms of calvary

plural

calvaries·

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 calvary

What does calvary mean?

calvary means "a hill near Jerusalem where Jesus was crucified". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in calvary?

calvary has 3 syllables: cal-va-ry. The stress falls on "cal". In IPA it is /ˈkælvɚi/.

What is another word for calvary?

Close synonyms include Golgotha, martyrdom. 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 calvary a common word?

calvary 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.