canonise

Other forms of canonise

past tense

canonised·

present participle

canonising·

third person

canonises·

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 canonise

What does canonise mean?

canonise means "treat as a sacred person". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in canonise?

canonise has 3 syllables: ca-no-nise. The stress falls on "ca".

What is another word for canonise?

Close synonyms include canonize, canonize, saint. 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 canonise a common word?

canonise 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.