nebuchadnezzar

Other forms of nebuchadnezzar

plural

nebuchadnezzars·

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 nebuchadnezzar

What does nebuchadnezzar mean?

nebuchadnezzar means "(Old Testament) king of Chaldea who captured and destroyed Jerusalem and exiled the Israelites to Babylonia (630?-562 BC)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in nebuchadnezzar?

nebuchadnezzar has 5 syllables and divides as ne-bu-chad-nez-zar 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 nebuchadnezzar?

Close synonyms include Nebuchadnezzar II, Nebuchadrezzar, Nebuchadrezzar II. 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 nebuchadnezzar a common word?

nebuchadnezzar 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.