miltiades

1. 1.

   Athenian general who defeated the Persians at Marathon (540-489)

   Broadergeneral

Other forms of miltiades

plural

miltiadeses·

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 miltiades

What does miltiades mean?

miltiades means "Athenian general who defeated the Persians at Marathon (540-489)".

How many syllables are in miltiades?

miltiades has 3 syllables and divides as mil-tia-des under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.