garter

1. 1.

   a band (usually elastic) worn around the leg to hold up a stocking (or around the arm to hold up a sleeve)

   Synonymssupporter

   Broaderband

1. 1.

   fasten with or as if with a garter

   Broaderfasten

Other forms of garter

plural

garters·

past tense

garterred·

present participle

garterring·

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 garter

What does garter mean?

garter means "a band (usually elastic) worn around the leg to hold up a stocking (or around the arm to hold up a sleeve)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in garter?

garter has 2 syllables: gar-ter. The stress falls on "gar". In IPA it is /ˈɡɑɹtɚ/.

What is another word for garter?

Close synonyms include supporter. 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 garter a common word?

garter 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.