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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
rustbelt is a noun meaning "urban areas in New England and Midwest characterized by concentrations of declining industries (steel or textiles)". It carries one recorded sense.
urban areas in New England and Midwest characterized by concentrations of declining industries (steel or textiles)
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 rustbelt come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.