Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

manhattanville

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.55 in modern English

Syllables: man-hat-tanville
IPA

22

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A neighborhood of Manhattan, New York.

Example Sentences

"Manhattanville College in Purchase, N. Y., has joined a small but growing [movement] back to the practice of awarding letter grades after a year's experiment with a nonletter system that was seen as a way of reducing the competitiveness and authoritarian quality of [letter] grading."

Etymology

From Manhattan + -ville.

Questions

What does manhattanville mean?: A neighborhood of Manhattan, New York.
Where does manhattanville come from?: From Manhattan + -ville.

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