diaper

1. 1.

   garment consisting of a folded cloth drawn up between the legs and fastened at the waist; worn by infants to catch excrement

   Synonymsnappynapkin

   Broadergarment
2. 2.

   a fabric (usually cotton or linen) with a distinctive woven pattern of small repeated figures

   Broaderfabric

Other forms of diaper

plural

diapers·

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 diaper

What does diaper mean?

diaper means "garment consisting of a folded cloth drawn up between the legs and fastened at the waist; worn by infants to catch excrement". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in diaper?

diaper has 2 syllables: dia-per. The stress falls on "dia". In IPA it is /ˈdaɪpɚ/.

What is another word for diaper?

Close synonyms include nappy, napkin. 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 diaper a common word?

diaper 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.