locust

Other forms of locust

plural

locusts·

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 locust

What does locust mean?

locust means "migratory grasshoppers of warm regions having short antennae". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in locust?

locust has 2 syllables: lo-cust. The stress falls on "lo". In IPA it is /ˈloʊkəst/.

What is another word for locust?

Close synonyms include locust tree. 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 locust a common word?

locust 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.