stabroek

1. 1.

   port city and the capital and largest city of Guyana

   “the city was called Stabroek by the Dutch but was renamed Georgetown by the British in 1812”

   SynonymsGeorgetown

   Broadernational capitalport

   Part ofGuyana

Other forms of stabroek

plural

stabroeks·

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 stabroek

What does stabroek mean?

stabroek means "port city and the capital and largest city of Guyana".

How many syllables are in stabroek?

stabroek has 3 syllables: sta-bro-ek. The stress falls on "sta".

What is another word for stabroek?

Close synonyms include Georgetown. 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 stabroek a common word?

stabroek is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.