cavalryman

Other forms of cavalryman

plural

cavalrymans·

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 cavalryman

What does cavalryman mean?

cavalryman means "a soldier in a motorized army unit". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cavalryman?

cavalryman has 4 syllables: ca-val-ry-man. The stress falls on "val".

What is another word for cavalryman?

Close synonyms include trooper, trooper. 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 cavalryman a common word?

cavalryman 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.