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say it: EL-gur
elgar is a noun meaning "British composer of choral and orchestral works including two symphonies as well as songs and chamber music and music for brass band (1857-1934)". It carries one recorded sense.
British composer of choral and orchestral works including two symphonies as well as songs and chamber music and music for brass band (1857-1934)
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 elgar come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.