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: ho-ro-loge. The stress falls on "ho".

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.