body-build

Questions about body-build

What does body-build mean?

body-build means "constitution of the human body".

How many syllables are in body-build?

body-build has 4 syllables: bo-dy--bu-ild. The stress falls on "dy-".

What is another word for body-build?

Close synonyms include physique, build, habitus. 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 body-build a common word?

body-build 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for body-build come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.