needlewoman

Questions about needlewoman

What does needlewoman mean?

needlewoman means "someone who makes or mends dresses".

How many syllables are in needlewoman?

needlewoman has 4 syllables and divides as need-le-wo-man 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 needlewoman?

Close synonyms include dressmaker, modiste, seamstress, sempstress. 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 needlewoman a common word?

needlewoman 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.