boss

1. 1.

   raise in a relief

   “embossed stationery”

   Synonymsembossstamp

   Broaderimpress

   Narrowerblock

1. 1.

   exceptionally good

   “a boss hand at carpentry”

   “his brag cornfield”

   Synonymsbrag

   Similarsuperior

   colloquialism

Other forms of boss

plural

bosses·

past tense

bossed·

present participle

bossing·

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 boss

What does boss mean?

boss means "a person who exercises control over workers". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in boss?

boss has 1 syllable: boss. In IPA it is /ˈbɑs/.

What is another word for boss?

Close synonyms include foreman, chief, gaffer, honcho, hirer. 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 boss a common word?

boss is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. 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 boss?

1 word rhymes with boss. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.