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say it: KAHN-duhm
condom is a noun meaning "contraceptive device consisting of a sheath of thin rubber or latex that is worn over the penis during intercourse". It is pronounced /ˈkɑndəm/ — KAHN-duhm. It carries one recorded sense.
contraceptive device consisting of a sheath of thin rubber or latex that is worn over the penis during intercourse
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for condom come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.