vesuvius

1. 1.

   a volcano in southwestern Italy on the Mediterranean coast; a Plinian eruption in 79 AD buried Pompeii and killed Pliny the Elder; last erupted in 1944

   SynonymsMount VesuviusMt. Vesuvius

   Broadervolcano

   Part ofItaly

Other forms of vesuvius

plural

vesuviuses·

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 vesuvius

What does vesuvius mean?

vesuvius means "a volcano in southwestern Italy on the Mediterranean coast; a Plinian eruption in 79 AD buried Pompeii and killed Pliny the Elder; last erupted in 1944".

How many syllables are in vesuvius?

vesuvius has 4 syllables: ve-su-vi-us. The stress falls on "su". In IPA it is /vəˈsuviəs/.

What is another word for vesuvius?

Close synonyms include Mount Vesuvius, Mt. Vesuvius. 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 vesuvius a common word?

vesuvius 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.