drawer

1. 1.

   a boxlike container in a piece of furniture; made so as to slide in and out

   Broadercontainerstorage space

   Part ofchest of drawersbuffetchiffonierdesk

   Partslock
2. 2.

   the person who writes a check or draft instructing the drawee to pay someone else

   Broadermoney handler
3. 3.

   an artist skilled at drawing

   Synonymsdraftsman

   Broaderartist

   Narrowercartoonistpavement artistsketcher

Other forms of drawer

plural

drawers·

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 drawer

What does drawer mean?

drawer means "a boxlike container in a piece of furniture; made so as to slide in and out". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in drawer?

drawer has 1 syllable: drawer. In IPA it is /ˈdɹɔɹ/.

What is another word for drawer?

Close synonyms include draftsman. 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 drawer a common word?

drawer is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.