falstaff

1. 1.

   a dissolute character in Shakespeare's plays

   SynonymsSir John Falstaff

   Broaderfictional character

Other forms of falstaff

plural

falstaffs·

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 falstaff

What does falstaff mean?

falstaff means "a dissolute character in Shakespeare's plays".

How many syllables are in falstaff?

falstaff has 2 syllables: fal-staff. The stress falls on "fal". In IPA it is /ˈfɔlˌstæf/.

What is another word for falstaff?

Close synonyms include Sir John Falstaff. 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 falstaff a common word?

falstaff is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. 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 falstaff?

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