chalcedon

Other forms of chalcedon

plural

chalcedons·

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 chalcedon

What does chalcedon mean?

chalcedon means "a former town on the Bosporus (now part of Istanbul); site of the Council of Chalcedon". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in chalcedon?

chalcedon has 3 syllables: chal-ce-don. The stress falls on "chal".

What is another word for chalcedon?

Close synonyms include Kadikoy, Council of Chalcedon. 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 chalcedon a common word?

chalcedon 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.