tamerlane

Questions about tamerlane

What does tamerlane mean?

tamerlane means "Mongolian ruler of Samarkand who led his nomadic hordes to conquer an area from Turkey to Mongolia (1336-1405)".

How many syllables are in tamerlane?

tamerlane has 3 syllables and divides as ta-mer-lane under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for tamerlane?

Close synonyms include Tamburlaine, Timur, Timur Lenk. 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 tamerlane a common word?

tamerlane 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.