Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

coromandel

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.19 in modern English

Syllables: coro-man-del
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Synonym of calamander.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

Synonym of Chinese violet.

Countable; Uncountable

name

A town on the Coromandel Peninsula, Waikato, North Island, New Zealand, named after HMS Coromandel.

name

A mountain range in the Coromandel Peninsula, North Island, New Zealand; in full, Coromandel Range.

name

A geographic region of southeast coastal India, bounded by the Krishna River to the north, the Bay of Bengal to the east, the Kaveri delta to the south, and the Eastern Ghats to the west; located in Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh; in full, Coromandel Coast.

Example Sentences

"Rhoda took their battered hats, led the women upstairs for hairpins, and presently fed them all with tea-cakes, poached eggs, anchovy toast, and drinks from a coromandel-wood liqueur case."

Etymology

From the Coromandel Coast in India, a source of this wood.

Usage

Inflected Forms

coromandels (plural)

Derived Forms

coromandel

Phrases

Coromandel Coast Coromandel Peninsula Coromandel Range Coromandel Ranges Thames-Coromandel

Synonyms

calamander Chinese violet

Questions

What does coromandel mean?: Synonym of calamander.
Where does coromandel come from?: From the Coromandel Coast in India, a source of this wood.

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