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Syllable division and stress derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
edwy is a noun meaning "King of England who was renounced by Northumbria in favor of his brother Edgar (died in 959)". It carries one recorded sense.
King of England who was renounced by Northumbria in favor of his brother Edgar (died in 959)
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 edwy come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.