memsahib

1. 1.

   a woman sahib

   Broadersahib

Other forms of memsahib

plural

memsahibs·

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 memsahib

What does memsahib mean?

memsahib means "a woman sahib".

How many syllables are in memsahib?

memsahib has 3 syllables: mem-sa-hib. The stress falls on "mem".

Is memsahib a common word?

memsahib is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.