say it: FAR-uh-day
faraday is a noun meaning "the English physicist and chemist who discovered electromagnetic induction (1791-1867)". It carries one recorded sense.
the English physicist and chemist who discovered electromagnetic induction (1791-1867)
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 faraday 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.