horologe

Other forms of horologe

plural

horologes·

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 horologe

What does horologe mean?

horologe means "a measuring instrument or device for keeping time".

How many syllables are in horologe?

horologe has 3 syllables and divides as ho-ro-loge 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 horologe?

Close synonyms include timepiece, timekeeper. 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 horologe a common word?

horologe 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.