laver

Other forms of laver

plural

lavers·

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 laver

What does laver mean?

laver means "Australian tennis player who in 1962 was the second man to win the Australian and French and English and United States singles titles in the same year; in 1969 he repeated this feat (born in 1938)". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in laver?

laver has 2 syllables: la-ver. The stress falls on "la". In IPA it is /ˈleɪvɚ/.

What is another word for laver?

Close synonyms include Rod Laver, Rodney George Laver, red laver, sea lettuce. 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 laver a common word?

laver 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.