bestowment

Other forms of bestowment

plural

bestowments·

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 bestowment

What does bestowment mean?

bestowment means "a gift that is bestowed or conferred". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bestowment?

bestowment has 3 syllables: be-stow-ment. The stress falls on "be".

What is another word for bestowment?

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

bestowment 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.