laboratory

Other forms of laboratory

plural

laboratories·

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 laboratory

What does laboratory mean?

laboratory means "a workplace for the conduct of scientific research". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in laboratory?

laboratory has 4 syllables: labor-a-to-ry. The stress falls on "labor". In IPA it is /ˈlæbɹəˌtɔɹi/.

What is another word for laboratory?

Close synonyms include lab, research lab, research laboratory, science lab, science laboratory. 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 laboratory a common word?

laboratory is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with laboratory?

59 words rhyme with laboratory. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.