nyasaland

Other forms of nyasaland

plural

nyasalands·

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 nyasaland

What does nyasaland mean?

nyasaland means "a landlocked republic in southern central Africa; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1964".

How many syllables are in nyasaland?

nyasaland has 3 syllables and divides as nya-sa-land 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 nyasaland?

Close synonyms include Malawi, Republic of Malawi. 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 nyasaland a common word?

nyasaland 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.