osage

Other forms of osage

plural

osages·

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 osage

What does osage mean?

osage means "a member of the Siouan people formerly living in Missouri in the valleys of the Missouri and Osage rivers; oil was found on Osage lands early in the 20th century". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in osage?

osage has 2 syllables: o-sage. The stress falls on "sage". In IPA it is /oʊˈseɪdʒ/.

What is another word for osage?

Close synonyms include Osage River. 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 osage a common word?

osage 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.

What rhymes with osage?

1 word rhymes with osage. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.