bestowal

Other forms of bestowal

plural

bestowals·

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 bestowal

What does bestowal mean?

bestowal means "the act of conferring an honor or presenting a gift". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bestowal?

bestowal has 3 syllables: be-sto-wal. The stress falls on "be".

What is another word for bestowal?

Close synonyms include bestowment, conferral, conferment, bestowment. 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 bestowal a common word?

bestowal 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.