mayan

Other forms of mayan

plural

mayans·

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 mayan

What does mayan mean?

mayan means "a member of an American Indian people of Yucatan and Belize and Guatemala who had a culture (which reached its peak between AD 300 and 900) characterized by outstanding architecture and pottery and astronomy". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in mayan?

mayan has 2 syllables: ma-yan. The stress falls on "ma". In IPA it is /ˈmaɪən/.

What is another word for mayan?

Close synonyms include Maya, Maya, Mayan language. 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 mayan a common word?

mayan 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.