madonna

Other forms of madonna

plural

madonnas·

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 madonna

What does madonna mean?

madonna means "the mother of Jesus; Christians refer to her as the Virgin Mary; she is especially honored by Roman Catholics". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in madonna?

madonna has 3 syllables: ma-don-na. The stress falls on "don". In IPA it is /məˈdɑnə/.

What is another word for madonna?

Close synonyms include Mary, Virgin Mary, The Virgin, Blessed Virgin, Madonna Louise Ciccone. 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 madonna a common word?

madonna 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.

What rhymes with madonna?

1 word rhymes with madonna. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.