greenville

1. 1.

   a town in northwest South Carolina in the Piedmont

   Broadertown

   Part ofSouth Carolina
2. 2.

   a city in eastern North Carolina; tobacco market

   Broadercity

   Part ofNorth Carolina
3. 3.

   a town in western Mississippi on the Mississippi River to the north of Vicksburg

   Broadertown

   Part ofMississippi

Other forms of greenville

plural

greenvilles·

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 greenville

What does greenville mean?

greenville means "a town in northwest South Carolina in the Piedmont". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in greenville?

greenville has 2 syllables: greenvi-lle. The stress falls on "greenvi". In IPA it is /ˈɡɹinvɪl/.

Is greenville a common word?

greenville 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.