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say it: kur-IN-thee-uhn
corinthian is a noun and adjective meaning "a man devoted to the pursuit of pleasure". It is pronounced /kɚˈɪnθiən/ — kur-IN-thee-uhn. It carries 4 recorded senses.
a man devoted to the pursuit of pleasure
or pertaining to the Corinthian style of architecture
of or relating to or characteristic of Corinth or its inhabitants
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 corinthian 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.