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say it: HER-uhl-dree
heraldry is a noun meaning "the study and classification of armorial bearings and the tracing of genealogies". It is pronounced /ˈhɛɹəldɹi/ — HER-uhl-dree. It carries 2 recorded senses.
the study and classification of armorial bearings and the tracing of genealogies
emblem indicating the right of a person to bear arms
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for heraldry come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.