fodder

1. 1.

   give fodder (to domesticated animals)

   Broaderfeed

Other forms of fodder

plural

fodders·

past tense

fodderred·

present participle

fodderring·

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 fodder

What does fodder mean?

fodder means "soldiers who are regarded as expendable in the face of artillery fire". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in fodder?

fodder has 2 syllables: fod-der. The stress falls on "fod". In IPA it is /ˈfɑdɚ/.

What is another word for fodder?

Close synonyms include cannon fodder, fresh fish. 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 fodder a common word?

fodder 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.