medallion

Other forms of medallion

plural

medallions·

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 medallion

What does medallion mean?

medallion means "any of various large ancient Greek coins". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in medallion?

medallion has 3 syllables: me-dal-lion. The stress falls on "dal". In IPA it is /məˈdæljən/.

What is another word for medallion?

Close synonyms include decoration, laurel wreath, medal, palm, ribbon. 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 medallion a common word?

medallion 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.