gettysburg

Other forms of gettysburg

plural

gettysburgs·

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 gettysburg

What does gettysburg mean?

gettysburg means "a small town in southern Pennsylvania; site of a national cemetery". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in gettysburg?

gettysburg has 3 syllables: get-tys-burg. The stress falls on "get". In IPA it is /ˈɡɛtizbɚɡ/.

What is another word for gettysburg?

Close synonyms include Battle of Gettysburg. 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 gettysburg a common word?

gettysburg 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.