cyclades

Other forms of cyclades

plural

cycladeses·

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 cyclades

What does cyclades mean?

cyclades means "the Bronze Age civilization on the Cyclades islands in the southern Aegean Sea that flourished 3000-1100 BC". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cyclades?

cyclades has 3 syllables: cy-cla-des. The stress falls on "cla". In IPA it is /saɪˈkleɪdiz/.

What is another word for cyclades?

Close synonyms include Cycladic civilization, Cycladic civilisation, Cycladic culture, Kikladhes. 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 cyclades a common word?

cyclades is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.