diplomacy

Other forms of diplomacy

plural

diplomacies·

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 diplomacy

What does diplomacy mean?

diplomacy means "negotiation between nations". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in diplomacy?

diplomacy has 4 syllables: di-plo-ma-cy. The stress falls on "plo". In IPA it is /dɪˈploʊməsi/.

What is another word for diplomacy?

Close synonyms include diplomatic negotiations, delicacy, discreetness, finesse, statesmanship. 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 diplomacy a common word?

diplomacy is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.