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say it: mes-uh-puh-TAY-mee-uh
mesopotamia is a noun meaning "the land between the Tigris and Euphrates; site of several ancient civilizations; part of what is now known as Iraq". It is pronounced /ˌmɛsəpəˈteɪmiə/ — mes-uh-puh-TAY-mee-uh. It carries one recorded sense.
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 mesopotamia 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.