back-number

1. 1.

   someone who is no longer popular

   Synonymshas-been

   Broaderoldster

Questions about back-number

What does back-number mean?

back-number means "someone who is no longer popular".

How many syllables are in back-number?

back-number has 3 syllables: back--num-ber. The stress falls on "back-".

What is another word for back-number?

Close synonyms include has-been. 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 back-number a common word?

back-number 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.