mandela

1. 1.

   South African statesman who was released from prison to become the nation's first democratically elected president in 1994 (born in 1918)

   SynonymsNelson MandelaNelson Rolihlahla Mandela

   Broadernationalist leaderstatesman

Other forms of mandela

plural

mandelas·

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 mandela

What does mandela mean?

mandela means "South African statesman who was released from prison to become the nation's first democratically elected president in 1994 (born in 1918)".

How many syllables are in mandela?

mandela has 3 syllables: man-del-a. The stress falls on "del". In IPA it is /ˌmænˈdɛlə/.

What is another word for mandela?

Close synonyms include Nelson Mandela, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela. 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 mandela a common word?

mandela 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 mandela?

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