edison

1. 1.

   United States inventor; inventions included the phonograph and incandescent electric light and the microphone and the Kinetoscope (1847-1931)

   SynonymsThomas EdisonThomas Alva Edison

   Broaderinventor

Other forms of edison

plural

edisons·

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 edison

What does edison mean?

edison means "United States inventor; inventions included the phonograph and incandescent electric light and the microphone and the Kinetoscope (1847-1931)".

How many syllables are in edison?

edison has 3 syllables: ed-i-son. The stress falls on "ed". In IPA it is /ˈɛdɪsən/.

What is another word for edison?

Close synonyms include Thomas Edison, Thomas Alva Edison. 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 edison a common word?

edison 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.