copper-bottomed

1. 1.

   having a bottom of copper or sheathed with copper

   “copper-bottomed pots”

   “a copper-bottomed ship”

   Similarbottomed

Questions about copper-bottomed

What does copper-bottomed mean?

copper-bottomed means "having a bottom of copper or sheathed with copper".

How many syllables are in copper-bottomed?

copper-bottomed has 4 syllables and divides as cop-per--bot-tomed 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.

Is copper-bottomed a common word?

copper-bottomed 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.