printer

Other forms of printer

plural

printers·

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 printer

What does printer mean?

printer means "someone whose occupation is printing". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in printer?

printer has 2 syllables: prin-ter. The stress falls on "prin". In IPA it is /ˈpɹɪntɚ/.

What is another word for printer?

Close synonyms include pressman, printing machine. 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 printer a common word?

printer 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.