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say it: MAK-oh-vur
makeover is a noun meaning "an overall beauty treatment (involving a person's hair style and cosmetics and clothing) intended to change or improve a person's appearance". It is pronounced /ˈmæˌkoʊvɚ/ — MAK-oh-vur. It carries 2 recorded senses.
an overall beauty treatment (involving a person's hair style and cosmetics and clothing) intended to change or improve a person's appearance
a complete reconstruction and renovation of something
“the blighted neighborhood underwent a total makeover”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for makeover come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.