solemnise

Other forms of solemnise

past tense

solemnised·

present participle

solemnising·

third person

solemnises·

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 solemnise

What does solemnise mean?

solemnise means "observe or perform with dignity or gravity". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in solemnise?

solemnise has 3 syllables: so-lem-nise. The stress falls on "so".

What is another word for solemnise?

Close synonyms include solemnize, solemnize, solemnize. 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 solemnise a common word?

solemnise 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.