merovingian

Other forms of merovingian

plural

merovingians·

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 merovingian

What does merovingian mean?

merovingian means "a member of the Merovingian dynasty". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in merovingian?

merovingian has 5 syllables: me-ro-vin-gi-an. The stress falls on "gi".

What is another word for merovingian?

Close synonyms include Merovingian dynasty. 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 merovingian a common word?

merovingian 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.