say it: hoh-SEE-uh
hosea is a noun meaning "a minor Hebrew prophet (8th century BC)". It carries 2 recorded senses.
a minor Hebrew prophet (8th century BC)
an Old Testament book telling Hosea's prophecies
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 hosea 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.