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say it: STEE-puhl-chays
steeplechase is a noun meaning "a footrace of usually 3000 meters over a closed track with hurdles and a water jump". It is pronounced /ˈstipəlˌtʃeɪs/ — STEE-puhl-chays. It carries 2 recorded senses.
a footrace of usually 3000 meters over a closed track with hurdles and a water jump
a horse race over an obstructed course
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for steeplechase come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.