lexington

Other forms of lexington

plural

lexingtons·

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 lexington

What does lexington mean?

lexington means "town in eastern Massachusetts near Boston where the first battle of the American Revolution was fought". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in lexington?

lexington has 3 syllables: lex-ing-ton. The stress falls on "lex". In IPA it is /ˈlɛksɪŋtən/.

What is another word for lexington?

Close synonyms include Concord, Lexington and Concord. 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 lexington a common word?

lexington 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.