dahomey

Other forms of dahomey

plural

dahomeys·

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 dahomey

What does dahomey mean?

dahomey means "a country on western coast of Africa; formerly under French control".

How many syllables are in dahomey?

dahomey has 3 syllables: da-ho-mey. The stress falls on "da".

What is another word for dahomey?

Close synonyms include Benin, Republic of Benin. 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 dahomey a common word?

dahomey 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.