saarinen

1. 1.

   Finnish architect and city planner who moved to the United States in 1923; father of Eero Saarinen (1873-1950)

   SynonymsEliel Saarinen

   Broaderarchitect
2. 2.

   United States architect (born in Finland) (1910-1961)

   SynonymsEero Saarinen

   Broaderarchitect

Other forms of saarinen

plural

saarinens·

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 saarinen

What does saarinen mean?

saarinen means "Finnish architect and city planner who moved to the United States in 1923; father of Eero Saarinen (1873-1950)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in saarinen?

saarinen has 3 syllables: saa-ri-nen. The stress falls on "saa". In IPA it is /ˈsɑɹɪnən/.

What is another word for saarinen?

Close synonyms include Eliel Saarinen, Eero Saarinen. 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 saarinen a common word?

saarinen 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.