beholder

Other forms of beholder

plural

beholders·

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 beholder

What does beholder mean?

beholder means "a person who becomes aware (of things or events) through the senses".

How many syllables are in beholder?

beholder has 3 syllables: be-hol-der. The stress falls on "hol". In IPA it is /biˈhoʊldɚ/.

What is another word for beholder?

Close synonyms include perceiver, percipient, observer. 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 beholder a common word?

beholder is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with beholder?

11 words rhyme with beholder. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.