glass-cutter

Questions about glass-cutter

What does glass-cutter mean?

glass-cutter means "someone who cuts or grinds designs on glass". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in glass-cutter?

glass-cutter has 3 syllables: glas-s-cut-ter. The stress falls on "glas".

What is another word for glass-cutter?

Close synonyms include glass cutter, glass cutter, glassworker, glazier, glazer. 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 glass-cutter a common word?

glass-cutter 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.