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: ba-lu-strade. The stress falls on "ba".

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.