cowshed

Questions about cowshed

What does cowshed mean?

cowshed means "a barn for cows".

How many syllables are in cowshed?

cowshed has 1 syllable under the regular spelling rules, and is not divided further. 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.

What is another word for cowshed?

Close synonyms include cowbarn, cow barn, cowhouse, byre. 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 cowshed a common word?

cowshed 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.