Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

floating academy

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.03 in modern English

Syllables: float-ing a-cade-my
IPA

27

Scrabble Score

15

Letters

4

Syllables

13

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Those ships on which criminals were subjected to transportation or (later) to hard labor.

British usage; Obsolete; Slang

Usage

British usage
Obsolete
Slang

Inflected Forms

floating academies (plural)

Questions

What does floating academy mean?: Those ships on which criminals were subjected to transportation or (later) to hard labor.

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