ex-serviceman

Questions about ex-serviceman

What does ex-serviceman mean?

ex-serviceman means "a person who has served in the armed forces".

How many syllables are in ex-serviceman?

ex-serviceman has 5 syllables and divides as ex--ser-vi-ce-man 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.

What is another word for ex-serviceman?

Close synonyms include veteran, vet. 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 ex-serviceman a common word?

ex-serviceman 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.