montespan

Questions about montespan

What does montespan mean?

montespan means "French noblewoman who was mistress to Louis XIV until he became attracted to Madame de Maintenon (1641-1707)".

How many syllables are in montespan?

montespan has 3 syllables and divides as mon-te-span 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.

What is another word for montespan?

Close synonyms include Marquise de Montespan, Francoise-Athenais de Rochechouart. 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 montespan a common word?

montespan 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for montespan come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.