determiner

Other forms of determiner

plural

determiners·

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 determiner

What does determiner mean?

determiner means "an argument that is conclusive". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in determiner?

determiner has 4 syllables: de-ter-mi-ner. The stress falls on "ter".

What is another word for determiner?

Close synonyms include clincher, determining factor, determinative, determinant, determinative. 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 determiner a common word?

determiner 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.