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say it: KAH-kee
khaki is a noun and adjective meaning "a sturdy twilled cloth of a yellowish brown color used especially for military uniforms". It is pronounced /ˈkɑki/ — KAH-kee. It carries 2 recorded senses.
a sturdy twilled cloth of a yellowish brown color used especially for military uniforms
of a yellowish brown color
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 khaki 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.