oyster

1. 1.

   gather oysters, dig oysters

   Broadergather

Other forms of oyster

plural

oysters·

past tense

oysterred·

present participle

oysterring·

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 oyster

What does oyster mean?

oyster means "marine mollusks having a rough irregular shell; found on the sea bed mostly in coastal waters". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in oyster?

oyster has 2 syllables: oy-ster. The stress falls on "oy". In IPA it is /ˈɔɪstɚ/.

What is another word for oyster?

Close synonyms include huitre. 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 oyster a common word?

oyster 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.