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say it: kawrn-WAW-luhs
cornwallis is a noun meaning "commander of the British forces in the American War of Independence; was defeated by American and French troops at Yorktown (1738-1805)". It is pronounced /kɔɹnˈwɔləs/ — kawrn-WAW-luhs. It carries one recorded sense.
commander of the British forces in the American War of Independence; was defeated by American and French troops at Yorktown (1738-1805)
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 cornwallis 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.