barber

Other forms of barber

plural

barbers·

past tense

barberred·

present participle

barberring·

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 barber

What does barber mean?

barber means "United States composer (1910-1981)". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in barber?

barber has 2 syllables: bar-ber. The stress falls on "bar". In IPA it is /ˈbɑɹbɚ/.

What is another word for barber?

Close synonyms include Samuel Barber. 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 barber a common word?

barber is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.