orpington

1. 1.

   English breed of large chickens with white skin

   Broaderchicken

Other forms of orpington

plural

orpingtons·

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 orpington

What does orpington mean?

orpington means "English breed of large chickens with white skin".

How many syllables are in orpington?

orpington has 3 syllables and divides as or-ping-ton 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.