thaddaeus

Questions about thaddaeus

What does thaddaeus mean?

thaddaeus means "(New Testament) supposed brother of St. James; one of the Apostles who is invoked in prayer when a situation seems hopeless".

How many syllables are in thaddaeus?

thaddaeus has 4 syllables and divides as thad-da-e-us 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 thaddaeus?

Close synonyms include Jude, Saint Jude, St. Jude, Judas. 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 thaddaeus a common word?

thaddaeus 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.