Word.ws English Dictionary

Tennyson

Syllables: Ten·ny·son/ˈtɛnɪsn̩/

Tennyson proper noun: an English patronymic surname.

Proper noun

Tennyson

  1. An English patronymic surname.
  2. Alfred Tennyson, English poet and playwright.
  3. A locality in the Hawkesbury council area, eastern New South Wales, Australia.
  4. A locality in the Shire of Campaspe, northern Victoria, Australia

Origin of Tennyson

From a Middle English variant of Dennis + -son.

Words formed from Tennyson

Words that rhyme with Tennyson

Questions about Tennyson

What does Tennyson mean?
Tennyson means an English patronymic surname.
What part of speech is Tennyson?
Tennyson is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Tennyson?
Tennyson is pronounced /ˈtɛnɪsn̩/.

Words near Tennyson in the dictionary

  1. tenno
  2. tennos
  3. Tennou
  4. tenny
  5. Tennys
  6. Tennyson
  7. Tennyson Point
  8. Tennysonian
  9. Tennysonianism
  10. Tennysonianisms
  11. tenné

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Tennyson (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.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Tennyson.wav.

Cite this entry: “Tennyson.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/tennyson. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.