plumber

1. 1.

   a craftsman who installs and repairs pipes and fixtures and appliances

   Synonymspipe fitter

   Broadercraftsman

Other forms of plumber

plural

plumbers·

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 plumber

What does plumber mean?

plumber means "a craftsman who installs and repairs pipes and fixtures and appliances".

How many syllables are in plumber?

plumber has 2 syllables: plum-ber. The stress falls on "plum". In IPA it is /ˈplʌmɚ/.

What is another word for plumber?

Close synonyms include pipe fitter. 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 plumber a common word?

plumber 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.