ouster

Other forms of ouster

plural

ousters·

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 ouster

What does ouster mean?

ouster means "a person who ousts or supplants someone else". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ouster?

ouster has 2 syllables: ou-ster. The stress falls on "ou". In IPA it is /ˈaʊstɚ/.

What is another word for ouster?

Close synonyms include ejector, ousting. 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 ouster a common word?

ouster 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.