clerisy

Questions about clerisy

What does clerisy mean?

clerisy means "an educated and intellectual elite".

How many syllables are in clerisy?

clerisy has 3 syllables and divides as cle-ri-sy 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 clerisy?

Close synonyms include intelligentsia. 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 clerisy a common word?

clerisy 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.