balustrade

Other forms of balustrade

plural

balustrades·

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 balustrade

What does balustrade mean?

balustrade means "a railing at the side of a staircase or balcony to prevent people from falling".

How many syllables are in balustrade?

balustrade has 3 syllables and divides as ba-lu-strade 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 balustrade?

Close synonyms include bannister, banister, balusters, handrail. 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 balustrade a common word?

balustrade 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.