carothers

1. 1.

   United States chemist who developed nylon (1896-1937)

   SynonymsWallace CarothersWallace Hume Carothers

   Broaderchemist

Other forms of carothers

plural

carotherses·

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 carothers

What does carothers mean?

carothers means "United States chemist who developed nylon (1896-1937)".

How many syllables are in carothers?

carothers has 3 syllables: car-o-thers. The stress falls on "car". In IPA it is /ˈkæɹəðɚz/.

What is another word for carothers?

Close synonyms include Wallace Carothers, Wallace Hume Carothers. 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 carothers a common word?

carothers 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.