kingston

Other forms of kingston

plural

kingstons·

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 kingston

What does kingston mean?

kingston means "a town on the Hudson River in New York". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in kingston?

kingston has 2 syllables: king-ston. The stress falls on "king". In IPA it is /ˈkɪŋstən/.

What is another word for kingston?

Close synonyms include capital of Jamaica, Jamaican capital. 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 kingston a common word?

kingston is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.