witwatersrand

1. 1.

   a rocky region in the southern Transvaal in northeastern South Africa; contains rich gold deposits and coal and manganese

   SynonymsRandReef

   Broaderregion

   Part ofTransvaal

Other forms of witwatersrand

plural

witwatersrands·

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 witwatersrand

What does witwatersrand mean?

witwatersrand means "a rocky region in the southern Transvaal in northeastern South Africa; contains rich gold deposits and coal and manganese".

How many syllables are in witwatersrand?

witwatersrand has 4 syllables: wit-wa-ters-rand. The stress falls on "wit". In IPA it is /ˈwɪˌtwɔtɚsɹænd/.

What is another word for witwatersrand?

Close synonyms include Rand, Reef. 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 witwatersrand a common word?

witwatersrand 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.