doubleheader

1. 1.

   two games instead of one (especially in baseball when the same two teams play two games on the same day)

   Synonymstwin billdouble feature

   Broadergame

   Partsnightcap

Other forms of doubleheader

plural

doubleheaders·

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 doubleheader

What does doubleheader mean?

doubleheader means "two games instead of one (especially in baseball when the same two teams play two games on the same day)".

How many syllables are in doubleheader?

doubleheader has 5 syllables: do-u-ble-hea-der. The stress falls on "ble".

What is another word for doubleheader?

Close synonyms include twin bill, double feature. 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 doubleheader a common word?

doubleheader 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.