depot

Other forms of depot

plural

depots·

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 depot

What does depot mean?

depot means "station where transport vehicles load or unload passengers or goods". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in depot?

depot has 2 syllables: de-pot. The stress falls on "de". In IPA it is /ˈdipoʊ/.

What is another word for depot?

Close synonyms include terminal, terminus, storehouse, entrepot, storage. 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 depot a common word?

depot 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.