methuselah

Other forms of methuselah

plural

methuselahs·

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 methuselah

What does methuselah mean?

methuselah means "(Old Testament) a patriarch (grandfather of Noah) who is said to have lived 969 years". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in methuselah?

methuselah has 4 syllables: me-thu-se-lah. The stress falls on "thu". In IPA it is /məθˈjuzələ/.

What is another word for methuselah?

Close synonyms include old man, greybeard, graybeard. 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 methuselah a common word?

methuselah 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.