airstream

Other forms of airstream

plural

airstreams·

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 airstream

What does airstream mean?

airstream means "a relatively well-defined prevailing wind". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in airstream?

airstream has 3 syllables: a-ir-stream. The stress falls on "a".

What is another word for airstream?

Close synonyms include slipstream, race, backwash, wash. 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 airstream a common word?

airstream 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.