canute

1. 1.

   king of Denmark and Norway who forced Edmund II to divide England with him; on the death of Edmund II, Canute became king of all England (994-1035)

   SynonymsCnutKnutCanute the Great

   BroaderKing of England

Other forms of canute

plural

canutes·

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 canute

What does canute mean?

canute means "king of Denmark and Norway who forced Edmund II to divide England with him; on the death of Edmund II, Canute became king of all England (994-1035)".

How many syllables are in canute?

canute has 2 syllables: ca-nute. The stress falls on "ca".

What is another word for canute?

Close synonyms include Cnut, Knut, Canute the Great. 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 canute a common word?

canute 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.