cheviots

1. 1.

   a range of hills on the border between England and Scotland

   SynonymsCheviot Hills

   Broaderhill

   Part ofEnglandScotland

Other forms of cheviots

plural

cheviotses·

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 cheviots

What does cheviots mean?

cheviots means "a range of hills on the border between England and Scotland".

How many syllables are in cheviots?

cheviots has 3 syllables: che-vi-ots. The stress falls on "che". In IPA it is /ˈtʃiviəts/.

What is another word for cheviots?

Close synonyms include Cheviot Hills. 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 cheviots a common word?

cheviots 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.