hand-me-down

What does hand-me-down mean?

hand-me-down means "outgrown garment passed down from one person to another". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hand-me-down?

hand-me-down has 3 syllables and divides as hand--me--down 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 hand-me-down?

Close synonyms include hand-down. 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 hand-me-down a common word?

hand-me-down 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for hand-me-down come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.