four-poster

1. 1.

   a bed with posts at the four corners that can be used to support a canopy or curtains

   Broaderbed

   Partsleg

Questions about four-poster

What does four-poster mean?

four-poster means "a bed with posts at the four corners that can be used to support a canopy or curtains".

How many syllables are in four-poster?

four-poster has 3 syllables and divides as four--po-ster 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 four-poster a common word?

four-poster 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.