cheviot

1. 1.

   hardy hornless sheep of the Cheviot Hills noted for its short thick wool

   Broaderdomestic sheep

Other forms of cheviot

plural

cheviots·

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 cheviot

What does cheviot mean?

cheviot means "hardy hornless sheep of the Cheviot Hills noted for its short thick wool".

How many syllables are in cheviot?

cheviot has 3 syllables: chev-i-ot. The stress falls on "chev". In IPA it is /ˈʃɛviət/.

Is cheviot a common word?

cheviot 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.