esther

1. 1.

   (Old Testament) a beautiful Jewess chosen by the king of Persia to be his queen; she stopped a plot to massacre all the Jews in Persia (an event celebrated by Jews as the feast of Purim)

   BroaderJewessqueen

   Old Testament

2. 2.

   an Old Testament book telling of a beautiful Jewess who became queen of Persia and saved her people from massacre

   SynonymsBook of Esther

   Broaderbook

   Part ofHagiographaOld Testament

Other forms of esther

plural

esthers·

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 esther

What does esther mean?

esther means "(Old Testament) a beautiful Jewess chosen by the king of Persia to be his queen; she stopped a plot to massacre all the Jews in Persia (an event celebrated by Jews as the feast of Purim)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in esther?

esther has 2 syllables: es-ther. The stress falls on "es". In IPA it is /ˈɛstɚ/.

What is another word for esther?

Close synonyms include Book of Esther. 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 esther a common word?

esther 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.

What rhymes with esther?

2 words rhyme with esther. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.