say it: man-DEL-uh
mandela is a noun meaning "South African statesman who was released from prison to become the nation's first democratically elected president in 1994 (born in 1918)". It carries one recorded sense.
South African statesman who was released from prison to become the nation's first democratically elected president in 1994 (born in 1918)
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 mandela 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.