Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

archtraitor

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: arch-traitor
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A chief or transcendent traitor.

Example Sentences

"[…] that caitiffe Cardinall, and English Arch-traitor, from his Cannon of corrupt conceipt dischargeth two seditious Libels against his Souereign:"
"1754, Isaac Watts, Remnants of Time, Employed in Prose and Verse, in The Posthumous Works of the Late Reverend Dr. Isaac Watts, London: T. and T. Longman et al., p. 276, He [Jesus] led Satan the Arch-Traitor bound at his Chariot Wheels […]"
"Myself, arch-traitor to myself; My hollowest friend, my deadliest foe, My clog whatever road I go."
"In the furious battle over the 1906 Pure Food Law, he [Henry J. Heinz] was a hero to reformers and, to many of his fellow food processors, an archtraitor."

Etymology

From arch- + traitor.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: arch

Inflected Forms

archtraitors (plural)

Questions

What does archtraitor mean?: A chief or transcendent traitor.
Where does archtraitor come from?: From arch- + traitor.

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