gallus

1. 1.

   elastic straps that hold trousers up (usually used in the plural)

   Synonymsbracesuspender

   Broaderman's clothing

   Partsstrap

   plural

2. 2.

   common domestic birds and related forms

   Synonymsgenus Gallus

   Broaderbird genus

   Part ofPhasianidae

Other forms of gallus

plural

galluses·

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 gallus

What does gallus mean?

gallus means "elastic straps that hold trousers up (usually used in the plural)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in gallus?

gallus has 2 syllables: gal-lus. The stress falls on "gal". In IPA it is /ˈɡæləs/.

What is another word for gallus?

Close synonyms include brace, suspender, genus Gallus. 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 gallus a common word?

gallus 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.