landlubber

Other forms of landlubber

plural

landlubbers·

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 landlubber

What does landlubber mean?

landlubber means "a person who lives and works on land". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in landlubber?

landlubber has 3 syllables: land-lub-ber. The stress falls on "land".

What is another word for landlubber?

Close synonyms include landsman, landman, lubber, landsman. 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 landlubber a common word?

landlubber 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.