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say it: NEE-buur
niebuhr is a noun meaning "United States Protestant theologian (1892-1971)". It is pronounced /ˈnibʊɹ/ — NEE-buur. It carries 2 recorded senses.
United States Protestant theologian (1892-1971)
German historian noted for his critical approach to sources and for his history of Rome (1776-1831)
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 niebuhr come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.