nicaea

Other forms of nicaea

plural

nicaeas·

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 nicaea

What does nicaea mean?

nicaea means "an ancient city in Bithynia; founded in the 4th century BC and flourished under the Romans; the Nicene Creed was adopted there in 325". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in nicaea?

nicaea has 4 syllables and divides as ni-ca-e-a 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 nicaea?

Close synonyms include Second Council of Nicaea, First Council of Nicaea. 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 nicaea a common word?

nicaea 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.