longshoreman

Other forms of longshoreman

plural

longshoremans·

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 longshoreman

What does longshoreman mean?

longshoreman means "a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port".

How many syllables are in longshoreman?

longshoreman has 4 syllables: long-sho-re-man. The stress falls on "sho".

What is another word for longshoreman?

Close synonyms include stevedore, loader, docker, dockhand, dock worker. 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 longshoreman a common word?

longshoreman 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.