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say it: LAW-duh-nuhm
laudanum is a noun meaning "narcotic consisting of an alcohol solution of opium or any preparation in which opium is the main ingredient". It carries one recorded sense.
narcotic consisting of an alcohol solution of opium or any preparation in which opium is the main ingredient
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 laudanum 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.