crematorium

Other forms of crematorium

plural

crematoria

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 crematorium

What does crematorium mean?

crematorium means "a mortuary where corpses are cremated". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in crematorium?

crematorium has 5 syllables: cre-ma-to-ri-um. The stress falls on "to". In IPA it is /kɹiməˈtɔɹiəm/.

What is another word for crematorium?

Close synonyms include crematory, crematory, cremation chamber. 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 crematorium a common word?

crematorium is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. 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 crematorium?

2 words rhyme with crematorium. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.