oppenheimer

1. 1.

   United States physicist who directed the project at Los Alamos that developed the first atomic bomb (1904-1967)

   SynonymsRobert Oppenheimer

   Broadernuclear physicist

Other forms of oppenheimer

plural

oppenheimers·

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 oppenheimer

What does oppenheimer mean?

oppenheimer means "United States physicist who directed the project at Los Alamos that developed the first atomic bomb (1904-1967)".

How many syllables are in oppenheimer?

oppenheimer has 4 syllables: op-pen-hei-mer. The stress falls on "op". In IPA it is /ˈɑpənˌhaɪmɚ/.

What is another word for oppenheimer?

Close synonyms include Robert Oppenheimer. 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 oppenheimer a common word?

oppenheimer 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.