cannister

1. 1.

   metal container for storing dry foods such as tea or flour

   Synonymscanistertin

   Broadercontainer

Other forms of cannister

plural

cannisters·

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 cannister

What does cannister mean?

cannister means "metal container for storing dry foods such as tea or flour".

How many syllables are in cannister?

cannister has 3 syllables: can-ni-ster. The stress falls on "can". In IPA it is /ˈkænɪstɚ/.

What is another word for cannister?

Close synonyms include canister, tin. 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 cannister a common word?

cannister is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.