champollion

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   Frenchman and Egyptologist who studied the Rosetta Stone and in 1821 became the first person to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphics (1790-1832)

   SynonymsJean Francois Champollion

   BroaderEgyptologist

Other forms of champollion

plural

champollions·

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 champollion

What does champollion mean?

champollion means "Frenchman and Egyptologist who studied the Rosetta Stone and in 1821 became the first person to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphics (1790-1832)".

How many syllables are in champollion?

champollion has 4 syllables: cham-pol-li-on. The stress falls on "pol".

What is another word for champollion?

Close synonyms include Jean Francois Champollion. 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 champollion a common word?

champollion is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.