obeisance

Other forms of obeisance

plural

obeisances·

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 obeisance

What does obeisance mean?

obeisance means "bending the head or body or knee as a sign of reverence or submission or shame or greeting". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in obeisance?

obeisance has 3 syllables: o-bei-sance. The stress falls on "bei". In IPA it is /oʊˈbeɪsəns/.

What is another word for obeisance?

Close synonyms include bow, bowing, obedience. 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 obeisance a common word?

obeisance is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.