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say it: in-dee-uh-NAP-uh-lis
indianapolis is a noun meaning "the capital and largest city of Indiana; a major commercial center in the country's heartland; site of an annual 500-mile automobile race". It carries one recorded sense.
the capital and largest city of Indiana; a major commercial center in the country's heartland; site of an annual 500-mile automobile race
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 indianapolis 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.