barbados
/bɑɹˈbeɪ.doʊs/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.50 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To press-gang (force into naval service).
Example Sentences
- "The Barbadian planters […] resorted to shipping in hundreds of Scottish and Irish soldiers who’d been taken prisoner during Oliver Cromwell’s conquest. When that supply ran out, they took to kidnapping children, so many that a new term was coined: “barbadosed” meant the same thing in the late seventeenth century as “shanghaied” would in the twentieth."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰers-? Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰéh₂ Proto-Italic *farðā Latin barba Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātus Latin barbātus Portuguese barbado Portuguese barbadosbor. English Barbados From Portuguese barbados (“bearded ones”), from barba (“beard”), due to the dense hanging moss or vines in the island.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: barbado
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /bɑɹˈbeɪ.doʊs/
- British English: /bɑː(ɹ)ˈbeɪ.dɒs/
Inflected Forms
Phrases
Barbados anole
Barbados Blackbelly
Barbados bullfinch
Barbados cherry
Barbados leaf-toed gecko
Barbados leg
Barbados lily
Barbados nut