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say it: ZAY-vyur
xavier is a noun meaning "Spanish missionary and Jesuit who establish missionaries in Japan and Ceylon and the East Indies (1506-1552)". It is pronounced /ˈzeɪvjɚ/ — ZAY-vyur. It carries one recorded sense.
Spanish missionary and Jesuit who establish missionaries in Japan and Ceylon and the East Indies (1506-1552)
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for xavier come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.