maghreb

Other forms of maghreb

plural

maghrebs·

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 maghreb

What does maghreb mean?

maghreb means "the region of northwest Africa comprising the Atlas Mountains and the coastlands of Morocco and Algeria and Tunisia".

How many syllables are in maghreb?

maghreb has 2 syllables: magh-reb. The stress falls on "magh".

What is another word for maghreb?

Close synonyms include Mahgrib. 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 maghreb a common word?

maghreb is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.