ceramist

Questions about ceramist

What does ceramist mean?

ceramist means "a craftsman who shapes pottery on a potter's wheel and bakes them it a kiln".

How many syllables are in ceramist?

ceramist has 3 syllables and divides as ce-ra-mist under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for ceramist?

Close synonyms include potter, thrower, ceramicist. 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 ceramist a common word?

ceramist 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.