commuter

1. 1.

   a passenger train that is ridden primarily by passengers who travel regularly from one place to another

   Synonymscommuter train

   Broaderpassenger train
2. 2.

   someone who travels regularly from home in a suburb to work in a city

   Broaderpassenger

   Narrowerstraphanger

Other forms of commuter

plural

commuters·

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 commuter

What does commuter mean?

commuter means "a passenger train that is ridden primarily by passengers who travel regularly from one place to another". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in commuter?

commuter has 3 syllables: com-mu-ter. The stress falls on "mu". In IPA it is /kəˈmjutɚ/.

What is another word for commuter?

Close synonyms include commuter train. 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 commuter a common word?

commuter is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.