quondam

Other forms of quondam

comparative

quondammer·

superlative

quondammest·

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 quondam

What does quondam mean?

quondam means "belonging to some prior time".

How many syllables are in quondam?

quondam has 2 syllables and divides as quon-dam 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 quondam?

Close synonyms include erstwhile, former, old, onetime, one-time. 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 quondam a common word?

quondam 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.