say it: KA-spur-ahv
kasparov is a noun meaning "Azerbaijani chess master who became world champion in 1985 by defeating Anatoli Karpov (born in 1963)". It is pronounced /ˈkæspɚɑv/ — KA-spur-ahv. It carries one recorded sense.
Azerbaijani chess master who became world champion in 1985 by defeating Anatoli Karpov (born in 1963)
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 kasparov 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.