hanoverian

Other forms of hanoverian

plural

hanoverians·

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 hanoverian

What does hanoverian mean?

hanoverian means "any of the British rulers who were members of the House of Hanover". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hanoverian?

hanoverian has 5 syllables: han-o-ver-i-an. The stress falls on "ver". In IPA it is /ˌhænoʊˈvɪɹiən/.

Is hanoverian a common word?

hanoverian 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.