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say it: MEN-uh-powz
menopause is a noun meaning "the time in a woman's life in which the menstrual cycle ends". It is pronounced /ˈmɛnəˌpaʊz/ — MEN-uh-powz. It carries one recorded sense.
the time in a woman's life in which the menstrual cycle ends
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for menopause come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.