cowman

Other forms of cowman

plural

cowmans·

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 cowman

What does cowman mean?

cowman means "a hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback".

How many syllables are in cowman?

cowman has 2 syllables: cow-man. The stress falls on "cow". In IPA it is /ˈkaʊmən/.

What is another word for cowman?

Close synonyms include cowboy, cowpuncher, puncher, cattleman, cowpoke. 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 cowman a common word?

cowman 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.