breather

1. 1.

   a short respite

   Synonymsbreathbreathing placebreathing spacebreathing spellbreathing time

   Broaderrespite
2. 2.

   air passage provided by a retractable device containing intake and exhaust pipes; permits a submarine to stay submerged for extended periods of time

   Synonymssnorkelschnorkelschnorchelsnorkel breather

   Broaderair passage

   Part ofsubmarine

Other forms of breather

plural

breathers·

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 breather

What does breather mean?

breather means "a short respite". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in breather?

breather has 2 syllables: brea-ther. The stress falls on "brea". In IPA it is /ˈbɹiðɚ/.

What is another word for breather?

Close synonyms include breath, breathing place, breathing space, breathing spell, breathing time. 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 breather a common word?

breather 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.