remonstrance

Questions about remonstrance

What does remonstrance mean?

remonstrance means "the act of expressing earnest opposition or protest".

How many syllables are in remonstrance?

remonstrance has 3 syllables and divides as re-mon-strance 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 remonstrance?

Close synonyms include expostulation, remonstration, objection. 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 remonstrance a common word?

remonstrance 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.