potomac

Other forms of potomac

plural

potomacs·

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 potomac

What does potomac mean?

potomac means "a river in the east central United States; rises in West Virginia in the Appalachian Mountains and flows eastward, forming the boundary between Maryland and Virginia, to the Chesapeake Bay". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in potomac?

potomac has 3 syllables: po-to-mac. The stress falls on "to". In IPA it is /pəˈtoʊmək/.

What is another word for potomac?

Close synonyms include Potomac 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 potomac a common word?

potomac is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.