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brigadoon

/ˌbrɪɡ.əˈdun/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.96 in modern English

Syllables
Brig-a-doon
IPA
/ˌbrɪɡ.əˈdun/
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A place that seems magically transient.

Example Sentences

Etymology

After the village in the 1947 musical of the same name, written by Alan Jay Lerner. That village appears for only one day every hundred years. The name of the village is taken from the Brig o' Doon mediaeval bridge, in Ayrshire, Scotland.

Inflected Forms

Brigadoons (plural)

Derived Forms

Brigadoonery Brigadoonish

Rhymes With

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Questions

How do you pronounce brigadoon?
The recorded pronunciation is /ˌbrɪɡ.əˈdun/.
What does brigadoon mean?
A place that seems magically transient.
Where does brigadoon come from?
After the village in the 1947 musical of the same name, written by Alan Jay Lerner. That village appears for only one day every hundred years. The name of the village is taken from the Brig o' Doon mediaeval bridge, in Ayrshire, Scotland.

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