merrymaker

Questions about merrymaker

What does merrymaker mean?

merrymaker means "a celebrant who shares in a noisy party".

How many syllables are in merrymaker?

merrymaker has 4 syllables and divides as mer-ry-ma-ker 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 merrymaker?

Close synonyms include reveler, reveller. 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 merrymaker a common word?

merrymaker 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.