catherine

Other forms of catherine

plural

catherines·

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 catherine

What does catherine mean?

catherine means "first wife of Henry VIII; Henry VIII's divorce from her was the initial step of the Reformation in England (1485-1536)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in catherine?

catherine has 3 syllables: cat-he-rine. The stress falls on "cat". In IPA it is /ˈkæθɚən/.

What is another word for catherine?

Close synonyms include Catherine of Aragon, Catherine II, Catherine 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 catherine a common word?

catherine is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.