cashmere

Other forms of cashmere

plural

cashmeres·

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 cashmere

What does cashmere mean?

cashmere means "a soft fabric made from the wool of the Cashmere goat". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cashmere?

cashmere has 2 syllables: cash-mere. The stress falls on "cash". In IPA it is /ˈkæʒmɪɹ/.

What is another word for cashmere?

Close synonyms include Kashmir, Jammu and Kashmir. 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 cashmere a common word?

cashmere 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.