imbiber

Other forms of imbiber

plural

imbibers·

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 imbiber

What does imbiber mean?

imbiber means "a person who drinks alcoholic beverages (especially to excess)".

How many syllables are in imbiber?

imbiber has 3 syllables: im-bi-ber. The stress falls on "im".

What is another word for imbiber?

Close synonyms include drinker, toper, juicer. 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 imbiber a common word?

imbiber 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.