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Syllable division and stress derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
molech is a noun meaning "god of the Canaanites and Phoenicians to whom parents sacrificed their children". It carries one recorded sense.
god of the Canaanites and Phoenicians to whom parents sacrificed their children
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 molech come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.