santa

Other forms of santa

plural

santas·

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 santa

What does santa mean?

santa means "the legendary patron saint of children; an imaginary being who is thought to bring presents to children at Christmas".

How many syllables are in santa?

santa has 2 syllables: san-ta. The stress falls on "san". In IPA it is /ˈsæntə/.

What is another word for santa?

Close synonyms include Santa Claus, Kriss Kringle, Father Christmas, Saint Nicholas, Saint Nick. 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 santa a common word?

santa is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.