tiflis

1. 1.

   the capital and largest city of Georgia on the Kura river

   SynonymsTbilisicapital of Georgia

   Broadernational capital

   Part ofGeorgia

Other forms of tiflis

plural

tiflises·

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 tiflis

What does tiflis mean?

tiflis means "the capital and largest city of Georgia on the Kura river".

How many syllables are in tiflis?

tiflis has 2 syllables: ti-flis. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for tiflis?

Close synonyms include Tbilisi, capital of Georgia. 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 tiflis a common word?

tiflis 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.