nylons

1. 1.

   women's stockings made from a sheer material (nylon or rayon or silk)

   Synonymsnylon stockingrayonsrayon stockingsilk stocking

   Broaderstocking

Other forms of nylons

plural

nylonses·

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 nylons

What does nylons mean?

nylons means "women's stockings made from a sheer material (nylon or rayon or silk)".

How many syllables are in nylons?

nylons has 2 syllables: ny-lons. The stress falls on "ny". In IPA it is /ˈnaɪˌlɑnz/.

What is another word for nylons?

Close synonyms include nylon stocking, rayons, rayon stocking, silk stocking. 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 nylons a common word?

nylons 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.