hairdressing

1. 1.

   a toiletry for the hair

   Synonymshair tonichair oilhair grease

   Broadertoiletry

   Narrowerpomade
2. 2.

   care for the hair: the activity of washing or cutting or curling or arranging the hair

   Synonymshair carehaircare

   Broadercare

   Narrowerbrushcombshampoohairweaving

Other forms of hairdressing

plural

hairdressings·

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 hairdressing

What does hairdressing mean?

hairdressing means "a toiletry for the hair". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hairdressing?

hairdressing has 3 syllables: hair-dres-sing. The stress falls on "hair". In IPA it is /ˈhɛɹˌdɹɛsɪŋ/.

What is another word for hairdressing?

Close synonyms include hair tonic, hair oil, hair grease, hair care, haircare. 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 hairdressing a common word?

hairdressing 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.

What rhymes with hairdressing?

1 word rhymes with hairdressing. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.