mendeleyev

1. 1.

   Russian chemist who developed a periodic table of the chemical elements and predicted the discovery of several new elements (1834-1907)

   SynonymsMendeleevDmitri MendeleyevDmitri MendeleevDmitri Ivanovich MendeleyevDmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev

   Broaderchemist

Other forms of mendeleyev

plural

mendeleyevs·

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 mendeleyev

What does mendeleyev mean?

mendeleyev means "Russian chemist who developed a periodic table of the chemical elements and predicted the discovery of several new elements (1834-1907)".

How many syllables are in mendeleyev?

mendeleyev has 3 syllables: men-de-leyev. The stress falls on "men".

What is another word for mendeleyev?

Close synonyms include Mendeleev, Dmitri Mendeleyev, Dmitri Mendeleev, Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleyev, Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev. 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 mendeleyev a common word?

mendeleyev is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.