edwy

1. 1.

   King of England who was renounced by Northumbria in favor of his brother Edgar (died in 959)

   SynonymsEadwig

   BroaderKing of England

Other forms of edwy

plural

edwies·

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 edwy

What does edwy mean?

edwy means "King of England who was renounced by Northumbria in favor of his brother Edgar (died in 959)".

How many syllables are in edwy?

edwy has 2 syllables: e-dwy. The stress falls on "e".

What is another word for edwy?

Close synonyms include Eadwig. 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 edwy a common word?

edwy 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.