escalator

Other forms of escalator

plural

escalators·

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 escalator

What does escalator mean?

escalator means "a clause in a contract that provides for an increase or a decrease in wages or prices or benefits etc. depending on certain conditions (as a change in the cost of living index)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in escalator?

escalator has 4 syllables: es-ca-la-tor. The stress falls on "es". In IPA it is /ˈɛskəˌleɪtɚ/.

What is another word for escalator?

Close synonyms include escalator clause, moving staircase, moving stairway. 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 escalator a common word?

escalator 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.

What rhymes with escalator?

14 words rhyme with escalator. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.