booster

Other forms of booster

plural

boosters·

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 booster

What does booster mean?

booster means "a person who backs a politician or a team etc.". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in booster?

booster has 2 syllables: boo-ster. The stress falls on "boo". In IPA it is /ˈbustɚ/.

What is another word for booster?

Close synonyms include supporter, protagonist, champion, admirer, friend. 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 booster a common word?

booster is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.