carver

Other forms of carver

plural

carvers·

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 carver

What does carver mean?

carver means "United States botanist and agricultural chemist who developed many uses for peanuts and soy beans and sweet potatoes (1864-1943)". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in carver?

carver has 2 syllables: car-ver. The stress falls on "car". In IPA it is /ˈkɑɹvɚ/.

What is another word for carver?

Close synonyms include George Washington Carver, woodcarver, sculptor, sculpturer, statue maker. 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 carver a common word?

carver 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.

What rhymes with carver?

1 word rhymes with carver. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.