defender

Other forms of defender

plural

defenders·

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 defender

What does defender mean?

defender means "a person who cares for persons or property". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in defender?

defender has 3 syllables: de-fen-der. The stress falls on "fen". In IPA it is /dɪˈfɛndɚ/.

What is another word for defender?

Close synonyms include guardian, protector, shielder, withstander. 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 defender a common word?

defender 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 defender?

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