greatcoat

Questions about greatcoat

What does greatcoat mean?

greatcoat means "a heavy coat worn over clothes in winter".

How many syllables are in greatcoat?

greatcoat has 4 syllables and divides as gre-at-co-at 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.

What is another word for greatcoat?

Close synonyms include overcoat, topcoat. 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 greatcoat a common word?

greatcoat 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.