Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

edinbourgeois

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: ed-in-bour-geois
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A resident of Edinburgh.

Example Sentences

"Brian Cassells' theory about morbid publicity being good publicity had proved incorrect and the average Edinbourgeois was too affronted by the title alone to consider seeing the show."
"Christopher Wallace, originally German but now an Edinbourgeois, in his The Resurrection Club (1999) queries the dissection and consumption of ourselves through markets of memory like Edinburgh Festivals."
"In 1822 the Edinbourgeois started to build the Parthenon on top of the Calton Hill, to commemorate the war."

Etymology

From French Edimbourgeois.

Origin

Source language: French

Word Breakdown

Root: Edimbourgeois

Questions

What does edinbourgeois mean?: A resident of Edinburgh.
Where does edinbourgeois come from?: It is traced to French.

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