pompey

Other forms of pompey

plural

pompeys·

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 pompey

What does pompey mean?

pompey means "Roman general and statesman who quarrelled with Caesar and fled to Egypt where he was murdered (106-48 BC)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pompey?

pompey has 2 syllables: pom-pey. The stress falls on "pom". In IPA it is /ˈpɑmpi/.

What is another word for pompey?

Close synonyms include Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, Pompey the Great, Portsmouth. 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 pompey a common word?

pompey 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.