ex-mayor

1. 1.

   a former mayor

   Broadermayor

Questions about ex-mayor

What does ex-mayor mean?

ex-mayor means "a former mayor".

How many syllables are in ex-mayor?

ex-mayor has 2 syllables and divides as ex--mayor under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is ex-mayor a common word?

ex-mayor 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.