fusilier

1. 1.

   (formerly) a British infantryman armed with a light flintlock musket

   Broaderinfantryman

Other forms of fusilier

plural

fusiliers·

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 fusilier

What does fusilier mean?

fusilier means "(formerly) a British infantryman armed with a light flintlock musket".

How many syllables are in fusilier?

fusilier has 3 syllables and divides as fu-si-lier 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.