huguenot
Meaning of huguenot
noun
a French Protestant of the 16th and 17th centuries. Largely Calvinist, the Huguenots suffered severe persecution at the hands of the Catholic majority, and many thousands emigrated from France.
French, alteration (by association with the name of a Geneva burgomaster, Besançon Hugues) of eiguenot, from Dutch eedgenot, from Swiss German Eidgenoss ‘confederate’, from Eid ‘oath’ + Genoss ‘associate’.
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- It is a name.
- The plural form of huguenot is: huguenots.
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Hyphenation of huguenot
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- It consists of 1 syllables and 8 chars.
- huguenot is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
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