cooper

1. 1.

   make barrels and casks

   Broadermake

Other forms of cooper

plural

coopers·

past tense

cooperred·

present participle

cooperring·

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 cooper

What does cooper mean?

cooper means "United States industrialist who built the first American locomotive; founded Cooper Union in New York City to offer free courses in the arts and sciences (1791-1883)". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cooper?

cooper has 2 syllables: coo-per. The stress falls on "coo". In IPA it is /ˈkupɚ/.

What is another word for cooper?

Close synonyms include Peter Cooper, Gary Cooper, Frank Cooper, James Fenimore Cooper, barrel 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 cooper a common word?

cooper is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. 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 cooper?

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