gronland

Other forms of gronland

plural

gronlands·

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 gronland

What does gronland mean?

gronland means "the largest island in the world; lies between the North Atlantic and the Arctic Ocean; a self-governing province of Denmark".

How many syllables are in gronland?

gronland has 2 syllables and divides as gron-land under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for gronland?

Close synonyms include Greenland, Kalaallit Nunaat. 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 gronland a common word?

gronland 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.