saxe-coburg-gotha

1. 1.

   the name of the royal family that ruled Great Britain from 1901-1917; the name was changed to Windsor in 1917 in response to anti-German feelings in World War I

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Questions about saxe-coburg-gotha

What does saxe-coburg-gotha mean?

saxe-coburg-gotha means "the name of the royal family that ruled Great Britain from 1901-1917; the name was changed to Windsor in 1917 in response to anti-German feelings in World War I".

How many syllables are in saxe-coburg-gotha?

saxe-coburg-gotha has 6 syllables and divides as sax-e--co-burg--go-tha 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.

Is saxe-coburg-gotha a common word?

saxe-coburg-gotha 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.