nosegay

Questions about nosegay

What does nosegay mean?

nosegay means "an arrangement of flowers that is usually given as a present".

How many syllables are in nosegay?

nosegay has 3 syllables and divides as no-se-gay 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 nosegay?

Close synonyms include bouquet, corsage, posy. 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 nosegay a common word?

nosegay 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.