cunaxa

1. 1.

   battle in 401 BC when the Artaxerxes II defeated his younger brother who tried to usurp the throne

   Synonymsbattle of Cunaxa

   Broaderpitched battle

   Babylonia

Other forms of cunaxa

plural

cunaxas·

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 cunaxa

What does cunaxa mean?

cunaxa means "battle in 401 BC when the Artaxerxes II defeated his younger brother who tried to usurp the throne".

How many syllables are in cunaxa?

cunaxa has 3 syllables: cu-nax-a. The stress falls on "cu".

What is another word for cunaxa?

Close synonyms include battle of Cunaxa. 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 cunaxa a common word?

cunaxa 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.