durham

Other forms of durham

plural

durhams·

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 durham

What does durham mean?

durham means "a city of north central North Carolina; site of Duke University". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in durham?

durham has 2 syllables: dur-ham. The stress falls on "dur". In IPA it is /ˈdɝəm/.

What is another word for durham?

Close synonyms include shorthorn. 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 durham a common word?

durham 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.