say it: fits-JER-uhld
fitzgerald is a noun meaning "English poet remembered primarily for his free translation of the poetry of Omar Khayyam (1809-1883)". It carries 3 recorded senses.
English poet remembered primarily for his free translation of the poetry of Omar Khayyam (1809-1883)
United States author whose novels characterized the Jazz Age in the United States (1896-1940)
United States scat singer (1917-1996)
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 fitzgerald 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.