ob

Other forms of ob

plural

obs·

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 ob

What does ob mean?

ob means "a major river of western Siberia; flows generally northward and westward to the Gulf of Ob and the Kara Sea". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ob?

ob has 1 syllable: ob.

What is another word for ob?

Close synonyms include Ob River, obstetrics, tocology, midwifery. 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 ob a common word?

ob is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.