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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
fontenoy is a noun meaning "a battle in 1745 in which the French army under Marshal Saxe defeated the English army and their allies under the duke of Cumberland". It carries one recorded sense.
a battle in 1745 in which the French army under Marshal Saxe defeated the English army and their allies under the duke of Cumberland
Belgium
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 fontenoy come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.