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say it: FAW-stuhs
faustus is a noun meaning "an alchemist of German legend who sold his soul to Mephistopheles in exchange for knowledge". It carries one recorded sense.
an alchemist of German legend who sold his soul to Mephistopheles in exchange for knowledge
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 faustus 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.