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say it: ROH-zuh-velt
roosevelt is a noun meaning "32nd President of the United States; elected four times; instituted New Deal to counter the Great Depression and led country during World War II (1882-1945)". It carries 3 recorded senses.
32nd President of the United States; elected four times; instituted New Deal to counter the Great Depression and led country during World War II (1882-1945)
wife of Franklin Roosevelt and a strong advocate of human rights (1884-1962)
26th President of the United States; hero of the Spanish-American War; Panama Canal was built during his administration
“Theodore Roosevelt said `Speak softly but carry a big stick'”
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 roosevelt come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.