excrement

1. 1.

   waste matter (as urine or sweat but especially feces) discharged from the body

   Synonymsbody wasteexcretionexcretaexcretory product

   Broaderwaste

   Narrowerfecal matterfeculawormcasthuman wasteurinevomitguano

Other forms of excrement

plural

excrements·

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 excrement

What does excrement mean?

excrement means "waste matter (as urine or sweat but especially feces) discharged from the body".

How many syllables are in excrement?

excrement has 3 syllables: ex-cre-ment. The stress falls on "ex". In IPA it is /ˈɛkskɹəmənt/.

What is another word for excrement?

Close synonyms include body waste, excretion, excreta, excretory product. 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 excrement a common word?

excrement 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.