minelayer

1. 1.

   ship equipped for laying marine mines

   Broadership

Other forms of minelayer

plural

minelayers·

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 minelayer

What does minelayer mean?

minelayer means "ship equipped for laying marine mines".

How many syllables are in minelayer?

minelayer has 3 syllables and divides as mi-ne-layer 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.