lamphouse

Questions about lamphouse

What does lamphouse mean?

lamphouse means "housing that holds a lamp (as in a movie projector)".

How many syllables are in lamphouse?

lamphouse has 2 syllables and divides as lam-phouse 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 lamphouse?

Close synonyms include lamp house, lamp housing. 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 lamphouse a common word?

lamphouse is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.