chaldee

1. 1.

   of or relating to ancient Chaldea or its people or language or culture

   SynonymsChaldeanChaldaean

Other forms of chaldee

plural

chaldees·

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 chaldee

What does chaldee mean?

chaldee means "a wise man skilled in occult learning". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in chaldee?

chaldee has 2 syllables and divides as chal-dee under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for chaldee?

Close synonyms include Chaldean, Chaldaean, Chaldean, Chaldaean, Chaldean. 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 chaldee a common word?

chaldee is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.