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say it: SAHY-pruhs
cyprus is a noun meaning "a country on the island of Cyprus; 80% of the people are of Greek origin and 20% or Turkish origin". It is pronounced /ˈsaɪpɹəs/ — SAHY-pruhs. It carries 2 recorded senses.
a country on the island of Cyprus; 80% of the people are of Greek origin and 20% or Turkish origin
an island in the eastern Mediterranean
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 cyprus 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.