wiesel

1. 1.

   United States writer (born in Romania) who survived Nazi concentration camps and is dedicated to keeping alive the memory of the Holocaust (born in 1928)

   SynonymsElie WieselEliezer Wiesel

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Other forms of wiesel

plural

wiesels·

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 wiesel

What does wiesel mean?

wiesel means "United States writer (born in Romania) who survived Nazi concentration camps and is dedicated to keeping alive the memory of the Holocaust (born in 1928)".

How many syllables are in wiesel?

wiesel has 2 syllables: wie-sel. The stress falls on "wie". In IPA it is /ˈwisəl/.

What is another word for wiesel?

Close synonyms include Elie Wiesel, Eliezer Wiesel. 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 wiesel a common word?

wiesel 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.