jominian
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or pertaining to Antoine-Henri Jomini (1779–1869), military general and celebrated writer on the Napoleonic art of war.
Example Sentences
- "The Jominian and Clausewitzian conceptions, with their checkerboard and geometrical analogies, were plausible enough when applied to the medium sized armies operating in the French-German-Italian theatre of the Napoleonic period."
Etymology
From Jomini + -an.
Word Breakdown
- Suffix: Jomini
Inflected Forms
more Jominian (comparative)
most Jominian (superlative)