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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
denier is a noun meaning "a unit of measurement for the fineness of silk or nylon or rayon". It carries 3 recorded senses.
a unit of measurement for the fineness of silk or nylon or rayon
“with an evening dress one wears 10 denier stockings”
any of various former European coins of different denominations
one who denies
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 denier come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.