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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
poitiers is a noun meaning "the battle in 1356 in which the English under the Black Prince defeated the French". It carries one recorded sense.
the battle in 1356 in which the English under the Black Prince defeated the French
France
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for poitiers come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.