caboose

Other forms of caboose

plural

cabooses·

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 caboose

What does caboose mean?

caboose means "the area for food preparation on a ship". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in caboose?

caboose has 2 syllables: ca-boose. The stress falls on "boose". In IPA it is /kəˈbus/.

What is another word for caboose?

Close synonyms include galley, ship's galley, cookhouse, cabin car. 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 caboose a common word?

caboose is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.