onager

Other forms of onager

plural

onagri

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 onager

What does onager mean?

onager means "an engine that provided medieval artillery used during sieges; a heavy war engine for hurling large stones and other missiles". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in onager?

onager has 3 syllables: o-na-ger. The stress falls on "o".

What is another word for onager?

Close synonyms include catapult, arbalest, arbalist, ballista, bricole. 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 onager a common word?

onager 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.