willamette

1. 1.

   a river in western Oregon that flows north into the Columbia River near Portland

   SynonymsWillamette River

   Broaderriver

   Part ofOregon

Other forms of willamette

plural

willamettes·

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 willamette

What does willamette mean?

willamette means "a river in western Oregon that flows north into the Columbia River near Portland".

How many syllables are in willamette?

willamette has 3 syllables: wil-lam-ette. The stress falls on "lam". In IPA it is /wəˈlæmət/.

What is another word for willamette?

Close synonyms include Willamette River. 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 willamette a common word?

willamette 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.