southey

1. 1.

   English poet and friend of Wordsworth and Coleridge (1774-1843)

   SynonymsRobert Southey

   Broaderpoet

   Part oflake poets

Other forms of southey

plural

southeys·

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 southey

What does southey mean?

southey means "English poet and friend of Wordsworth and Coleridge (1774-1843)".

How many syllables are in southey?

southey has 2 syllables: sou-they. The stress falls on "sou".

What is another word for southey?

Close synonyms include Robert Southey. 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 southey a common word?

southey 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.