goncourt

1. 1.

   French writer who collaborated with his brother Edmond de Goncourt on many books (1830-1870)

   SynonymsJules de GoncourtJules Alfred Huot de Goncourt

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2. 2.

   French writer who collaborated with his brother Jules de Goncourt on many books and who in his will established the Prix Goncourt (1822-1896)

   SynonymsEdmond de GoncourtEdmond Louis Antoine Huot de Goncourt

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Other forms of goncourt

plural

goncourts·

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 goncourt

What does goncourt mean?

goncourt means "French writer who collaborated with his brother Edmond de Goncourt on many books (1830-1870)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in goncourt?

goncourt has 2 syllables: gon-court. The stress falls on "gon".

What is another word for goncourt?

Close synonyms include Jules de Goncourt, Jules Alfred Huot de Goncourt, Edmond de Goncourt, Edmond Louis Antoine Huot de Goncourt. 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 goncourt a common word?

goncourt is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.