whig

1. 1.

   a member of the political party that urged social reform in 18th and 19th century England; was the opposition party to the Tories

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2. 2.

   a supporter of the American Revolution

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3. 3.

   a member of the Whig Party that existed in the United States before the American Civil War

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Other forms of whig

plural

whigs·

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 whig

What does whig mean?

whig means "a member of the political party that urged social reform in 18th and 19th century England; was the opposition party to the Tories". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in whig?

whig has 1 syllable: whig. In IPA it is /ˈwɪɡ/.

Is whig a common word?

whig 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.

What rhymes with whig?

1 word rhymes with whig. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.