adapter

1. 1.

   a musician who adapts a composition for particular voices or instruments or for another style of performance

   Synonymsarrangertranscriber

   Broadermusician

   Narrowerorchestrator
2. 2.

   device that enables something to be used in a way different from that for which it was intended or makes different pieces of apparatus compatible

   Synonymsadaptor

   Broaderdevice

Other forms of adapter

plural

adapters·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about adapter

What does adapter mean?

adapter means "a musician who adapts a composition for particular voices or instruments or for another style of performance". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in adapter?

adapter has 3 syllables: a-dap-ter. The stress falls on "dap". In IPA it is /əˈdæptɚ/.

What is another word for adapter?

Close synonyms include arranger, transcriber, adaptor. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is adapter a common word?

adapter is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with adapter?

1 word rhymes with adapter. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.