painter

Other forms of painter

plural

painters·

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 painter

What does painter mean?

painter means "an artist who paints". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in painter?

painter has 2 syllables: pain-ter. The stress falls on "pain". In IPA it is /ˈpeɪntɚ/.

What is another word for painter?

Close synonyms include cougar, puma, catamount, mountain lion, panther. 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 painter a common word?

painter is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.