elephant

1. 1.

   five-toed pachyderm

   Broaderproboscideanpachyderm

   Narrowerrogue elephantIndian elephantAfrican elephantmammothgomphothere

   Part ofElephantidae

   Partstuskproboscis
2. 2.

   the symbol of the Republican Party; introduced in cartoons by Thomas Nast in 1874

   Broaderemblem

Other forms of elephant

plural

elephants·

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 elephant

What does elephant mean?

elephant means "five-toed pachyderm". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in elephant?

elephant has 3 syllables: el-e-phant. The stress falls on "el". In IPA it is /ˈɛləfənt/.

Is elephant a common word?

elephant is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.