cornwallis

1. 1.

   commander of the British forces in the American War of Independence; was defeated by American and French troops at Yorktown (1738-1805)

   SynonymsCharles CornwallisFirst Marquess Cornwallis

   Broaderpeergeneral

Other forms of cornwallis

plural

cornwallises·

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 cornwallis

What does cornwallis mean?

cornwallis means "commander of the British forces in the American War of Independence; was defeated by American and French troops at Yorktown (1738-1805)".

How many syllables are in cornwallis?

cornwallis has 3 syllables: corn-wal-lis. The stress falls on "wal". In IPA it is /kɔɹnˈwɔləs/.

What is another word for cornwallis?

Close synonyms include Charles Cornwallis, First Marquess Cornwallis. 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 cornwallis a common word?

cornwallis is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with cornwallis?

1 word rhymes with cornwallis. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.