taiwan

Other forms of taiwan

plural

taiwans·

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 taiwan

What does taiwan mean?

taiwan means "a government on the island of Taiwan established in 1949 by Chiang Kai-shek after the conquest of mainland China by the Communists led by Mao Zedong". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in taiwan?

taiwan has 2 syllables: tai-wan. The stress falls on "tai". In IPA it is /ˈtaɪˈwɑn/.

What is another word for taiwan?

Close synonyms include China, Nationalist China, Republic of China, Formosa. 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 taiwan a common word?

taiwan is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with taiwan?

2 words rhyme with taiwan. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.