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Debussy

Syllables: De·bus·syUK/dəˈbjuː.siː/US/dəˈbju.si/

Debussy proper noun: a surname from French, notably borne by.

Proper noun

Debussy

  1. A surname from French, notably borne by
    1. Claude Debussy (1862–1918), a French composer.
  2. A rayed impact crater on Mercury, named after the French composer.

Origin of Debussy

Borrowed from French Debussy.

Words formed from Debussy

Words that rhyme with Debussy

Questions about Debussy

What does Debussy mean?
Debussy means a surname from French, notably borne by.
What part of speech is Debussy?
Debussy is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Debussy?
Debussy is pronounced /dəˈbjuː.siː/ (UK).

Words near Debussy in the dictionary

  1. debusscopes
  2. debussed
  3. debusses
  4. Debussian
  5. debussing
  6. Debussy
  7. Debussyan
  8. Debussyans
  9. Debussysm
  10. Debussyst
  11. Debussysts

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Debussy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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