enlargement

Other forms of enlargement

plural

enlargements·

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 enlargement

What does enlargement mean?

enlargement means "the act of increasing (something) in size or volume or quantity or scope". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in enlargement?

enlargement has 3 syllables: en-lar-gement. The stress falls on "lar". In IPA it is /ɪnˈlɑɹdʒmənt/.

What is another word for enlargement?

Close synonyms include expansion, expansion, elaboration, blowup, magnification. 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 enlargement a common word?

enlargement is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.