butcher block

Questions about butcher block

What is another word for butcher block?

It depends which butcher block you mean. In the sense “a thick wooden slab formed by bonding together thick laminated strips of unpainted hardwood”, the synonyms are butcher board. Across all 1 sense there are 1 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of butcher block?

WordNet records no antonym for butcher block. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for butcher block come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of butcher block

• Full entry for butcher blockAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for butcher blockWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.