bather

Other forms of bather

plural

bathers·

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 bather

What does bather mean?

bather means "a person who travels through the water by swimming". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bather?

bather has 2 syllables: ba-ther. The stress falls on "ba". In IPA it is /ˈbeɪðɚ/.

What is another word for bather?

Close synonyms include swimmer, natator. 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 bather a common word?

bather 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.