vesey

1. 1.

   United States freed slave and insurrectionist in South Carolina who was involved in planning an uprising of slaves and was hanged (1767-1822)

   SynonymsDenmark Vesey

   Broaderslaveinsurgent

Other forms of vesey

plural

veseys·

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 vesey

What does vesey mean?

vesey means "United States freed slave and insurrectionist in South Carolina who was involved in planning an uprising of slaves and was hanged (1767-1822)".

How many syllables are in vesey?

vesey has 2 syllables: ves-ey. The stress falls on "ves". In IPA it is /ˈvɛsi/.

What is another word for vesey?

Close synonyms include Denmark Vesey. 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 vesey a common word?

vesey 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.