jeroboam

1. 1.

   (Old Testament) first king of the northern kingdom of Israel who led Israel into sin (10th century BC)

   SynonymsJeroboam I

   Broaderking

   Old Testament

2. 2.

   a large wine bottle (holds 4/5 of a gallon)

   Synonymsdouble-magnum

   Broaderwine bottle

Other forms of jeroboam

plural

jeroboams·

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 jeroboam

What does jeroboam mean?

jeroboam means "(Old Testament) first king of the northern kingdom of Israel who led Israel into sin (10th century BC)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in jeroboam?

jeroboam has 4 syllables: jer-o-bo-am. The stress falls on "bo". In IPA it is /ˌdʒɛɹəˈboʊəm/.

What is another word for jeroboam?

Close synonyms include Jeroboam I, double-magnum. 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 jeroboam a common word?

jeroboam 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.