coroner

1. 1.

   a public official who investigates by inquest any death not due to natural causes

   Synonymsmedical examiner

   Broaderinvestigator

Other forms of coroner

plural

coroners·

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 coroner

What does coroner mean?

coroner means "a public official who investigates by inquest any death not due to natural causes".

How many syllables are in coroner?

coroner has 3 syllables: co-ro-ner. The stress falls on "co". In IPA it is /ˈkɔɹənɚ/.

What is another word for coroner?

Close synonyms include medical examiner. 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 coroner a common word?

coroner 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.