guenevere

1. 1.

   (Arthurian legend) wife of King Arthur; in some versions of the legend she became Lancelot's lover and that led to the end of the Knights of the Round Table

   SynonymsGuinevere

   Broaderfictional character

   Arthurian legend

Other forms of guenevere

plural

gueneveres·

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 guenevere

What does guenevere mean?

guenevere means "(Arthurian legend) wife of King Arthur; in some versions of the legend she became Lancelot's lover and that led to the end of the Knights of the Round Table".

How many syllables are in guenevere?

guenevere has 3 syllables: gue-ne-vere. The stress falls on "gue".

What is another word for guenevere?

Close synonyms include Guinevere. 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 guenevere a common word?

guenevere 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.