muscovy

1. 1.

   a Russian principality in the 13th to 16th centuries; Moscow was the capital

   Broaderprincipality

   Part ofRussia

Other forms of muscovy

plural

muscovies·

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 muscovy

What does muscovy mean?

muscovy means "a Russian principality in the 13th to 16th centuries; Moscow was the capital".

How many syllables are in muscovy?

muscovy has 3 syllables: mu-sco-vy. The stress falls on "mu".

Is muscovy a common word?

muscovy 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.