sennacherib

1. 1.

   king of Assyria who invaded Judea twice and defeated Babylon and rebuilt Nineveh after it had been destroyed by Babylonians (died in 681 BC)

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Other forms of sennacherib

plural

sennacheribs·

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 sennacherib

What does sennacherib mean?

sennacherib means "king of Assyria who invaded Judea twice and defeated Babylon and rebuilt Nineveh after it had been destroyed by Babylonians (died in 681 BC)".

How many syllables are in sennacherib?

sennacherib has 4 syllables: sen-na-che-rib. The stress falls on "na".

Is sennacherib a common word?

sennacherib 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.