peloponnesus

Other forms of peloponnesus

plural

peloponnesuses·

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 peloponnesus

What does peloponnesus mean?

peloponnesus means "the southern peninsula of Greece; dominated by Sparta until the 4th century BC".

How many syllables are in peloponnesus?

peloponnesus has 5 syllables and divides as pe-lo-pon-ne-sus 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.

What is another word for peloponnesus?

Close synonyms include Peloponnese, Peloponnesian Peninsula. 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 peloponnesus a common word?

peloponnesus 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.