david

1. 1.

   patron saint of Wales (circa 520-600)

   SynonymsSaint DavidSt. David

   Broaderpatron saint
2. 2.

   French neoclassical painter who actively supported the French Revolution (1748-1825)

   SynonymsJacques Louis David

   Broaderpainter
3. 3.

   (Old Testament) the 2nd king of the Israelites; as a young shepherd he fought Goliath (a giant Philistine warrior) and killed him by hitting him in the head with a stone flung from a sling; he united Israel with Jerusalem as its capital; many of the Psalms are attributed to David (circa 1000-962 BC)

   Broaderking

   Old Testament

Other forms of david

plural

davids·

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 david

What does david mean?

david means "patron saint of Wales (circa 520-600)". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in david?

david has 2 syllables: da-vid. The stress falls on "da". In IPA it is /ˈdeɪvɪd/.

What is another word for david?

Close synonyms include Saint David, St. David, Jacques Louis David. 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 david a common word?

david is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.