lawman

Other forms of lawman

plural

lawmans·

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 lawman

What does lawman mean?

lawman means "an officer of the law".

How many syllables are in lawman?

lawman has 2 syllables: law-man. The stress falls on "law". In IPA it is /ˈlɔmən/.

What is another word for lawman?

Close synonyms include law officer, peace officer. 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 lawman a common word?

lawman is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.