dubya

Other forms of dubya

plural

dubyas·

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 dubya

What does dubya mean?

dubya means "43rd President of the United States; son of George Herbert Walker Bush (born in 1946)".

How many syllables are in dubya?

dubya has 2 syllables and divides as du-bya under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for dubya?

Close synonyms include Bush, George Bush, George W. Bush, George Walker Bush, President Bush. 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 dubya a common word?

dubya 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.