investiture

Other forms of investiture

plural

investitures·

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 investiture

What does investiture mean?

investiture means "the ceremony of installing a new monarch". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in investiture?

investiture has 4 syllables: in-ves-ti-ture. The stress falls on "ves". In IPA it is /ˌɪnˈvɛstətʃɚ/.

What is another word for investiture?

Close synonyms include coronation, enthronement, enthronization, enthronisation, investment. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is investiture a common word?

investiture 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.