anchorperson

What does anchorperson mean?

anchorperson means "a television reporter who coordinates a broadcast to which several correspondents contribute".

How many syllables are in anchorperson?

anchorperson has 4 syllables and divides as an-chor-per-son under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for anchorperson?

Close synonyms include anchor, anchorman. 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 anchorperson a common word?

anchorperson is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for anchorperson come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.