haberdashery

Other forms of haberdashery

plural

haberdasheries·

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 haberdashery

What does haberdashery mean?

haberdashery means "a store where men's clothes are sold". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in haberdashery?

haberdashery has 5 syllables: hab-er-das-he-ry. The stress falls on "hab". In IPA it is /ˈhæbɚˌdæʃɚi/.

What is another word for haberdashery?

Close synonyms include clothing store, haberdashery store, mens store, men's furnishings. 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 haberdashery a common word?

haberdashery is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.