obeah

Questions about obeah

What does obeah mean?

obeah means "(West Indies) followers of a religious system involving witchcraft and sorcery". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in obeah?

obeah has 3 syllables: o-be-ah. The stress falls on "o".

What is another word for obeah?

Close synonyms include obi, obi. 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 obeah a common word?

obeah 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.