postern

1. 1.

   a small gate in the rear of a fort or castle

   Broadergate

Other forms of postern

plural

posterns·

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 postern

What does postern mean?

postern means "a small gate in the rear of a fort or castle".

How many syllables are in postern?

postern has 2 syllables and divides as po-stern under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.