maimonides

1. 1.

   Spanish philosopher considered the greatest Jewish scholar of the Middle Ages who codified Jewish law in the Talmud (1135-1204)

   SynonymsMoses MaimonidesRabbi Moses Ben Maimon

   Broaderphilosopher

Other forms of maimonides

plural

maimonideses·

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 maimonides

What does maimonides mean?

maimonides means "Spanish philosopher considered the greatest Jewish scholar of the Middle Ages who codified Jewish law in the Talmud (1135-1204)".

How many syllables are in maimonides?

maimonides has 3 syllables: maimo-ni-des. The stress falls on "maimo".

What is another word for maimonides?

Close synonyms include Moses Maimonides, Rabbi Moses Ben Maimon. 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 maimonides a common word?

maimonides 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.