housemaster

1. 1.

   teacher in charge of a school boardinghouse

   Broaderheadmaster

Other forms of housemaster

plural

housemasters·

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 housemaster

What does housemaster mean?

housemaster means "teacher in charge of a school boardinghouse".

How many syllables are in housemaster?

housemaster has 4 syllables and divides as hou-se-ma-ster 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.