duvalier

Other forms of duvalier

plural

duvaliers·

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 duvalier

What does duvalier mean?

duvalier means "son and successor of Francois Duvalier as president of Haiti; he was overthrown by a mass uprising in 1986 (born in 1951)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in duvalier?

duvalier has 3 syllables: du-val-ier. The stress falls on "val". In IPA it is /duˈvæljɚ/.

What is another word for duvalier?

Close synonyms include Jean-Claude Duvalier, Baby Doc, Francois Duvalier, Papa Doc. 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 duvalier a common word?

duvalier 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.