lazarette

Questions about lazarette

What does lazarette mean?

lazarette means "hospital for persons with infectious diseases (especially leprosy)".

How many syllables are in lazarette?

lazarette has 3 syllables and divides as la-za-rette 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 lazarette?

Close synonyms include lazaretto, lazaret, lazar house, pesthouse. 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 lazarette a common word?

lazarette is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.