camber

1. 1.

   curve upward in the middle

   Broaderarch

Other forms of camber

plural

cambers·

past tense

camberred·

present participle

camberring·

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 camber

What does camber mean?

camber means "a slight convexity (as of the surface of a road)". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in camber?

camber has 2 syllables: cam-ber. The stress falls on "cam". In IPA it is /ˈkæmbɚ/.

What is another word for camber?

Close synonyms include bank, cant. 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 camber a common word?

camber 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.