leather

1. 1.

   whip with a leather strap

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Other forms of leather

plural

leathers·

past tense

leatherred·

present participle

leatherring·

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 leather

What does leather mean?

leather means "an animal skin made smooth and flexible by removing the hair and then tanning". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in leather?

leather has 2 syllables: leat-her. The stress falls on "leat". In IPA it is /ˈlɛðɚ/.

Is leather a common word?

leather is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.