Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

gunpowder empire

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.24 in modern English

Syllables: gun-pow-der em-pire
IPA

26

Scrabble Score

15

Letters

4

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of the Ottoman, Safavid and Mughal empires, which all had considerable military success using then-innovative firearms, especially cannon and small arms.

Etymology

Coined by Marshall G. S. Hodgson and William H. McNeill at the University of Chicago. Hodgson used the phrase as a title in The Venture of Islam (1974).

Inflected Forms

gunpowder empires (plural)

Questions

What does gunpowder empire mean?: Any of the Ottoman, Safavid and Mughal empires, which all had considerable military success using then-innovative firearms, especially cannon and small arms.
Where does gunpowder empire come from?: Coined by Marshall G. S. Hodgson and William H. McNeill at the University of Chicago. Hodgson used the phrase as a title in The Venture of Islam (1974).

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