holofernes

1. 1.

   (Apocrypha) the Assyrian general who was decapitated by the biblical heroine Judith

   Broadergeneral

   Apocrypha

Other forms of holofernes

plural

holoferneses·

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 holofernes

What does holofernes mean?

holofernes means "(Apocrypha) the Assyrian general who was decapitated by the biblical heroine Judith".

How many syllables are in holofernes?

holofernes has 3 syllables: holo-fer-nes. The stress falls on "holo".

Is holofernes a common word?

holofernes 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.