palestine

Other forms of palestine

plural

palestines·

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 palestine

What does palestine mean?

palestine means "a former British mandate on the east coast of the Mediterranean; divided between Jordan and Israel in 1948". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in palestine?

palestine has 3 syllables: pal-e-stine. The stress falls on "pal". In IPA it is /ˈpæləˌstaɪn/.

What is another word for palestine?

Close synonyms include Canaan, Holy Land, Promised Land. 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 palestine a common word?

palestine is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for 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 palestine?

4 words rhyme with palestine. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.