decalcomania

1. 1.

   either a design that is fixed to some surface or a paper bearing the design which is to be transferred to the surface

   Synonymsdecal

   Broaderdesigntransfer paper
2. 2.

   the art of transfering designs from specially prepared paper to a wood or glass or metal surface

   Broaderart

Other forms of decalcomania

plural

decalcomanias·

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 decalcomania

What does decalcomania mean?

decalcomania means "either a design that is fixed to some surface or a paper bearing the design which is to be transferred to the surface". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in decalcomania?

decalcomania has 6 syllables: de-cal-co-ma-ni-a. The stress falls on "ma".

What is another word for decalcomania?

Close synonyms include decal. 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 decalcomania a common word?

decalcomania 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.