purser

1. 1.

   an officer aboard a ship who keeps accounts and attends to the passengers' welfare

   Broaderofficer

Other forms of purser

plural

pursers·

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 purser

What does purser mean?

purser means "an officer aboard a ship who keeps accounts and attends to the passengers' welfare".

How many syllables are in purser?

purser has 2 syllables: pur-ser. The stress falls on "pur". In IPA it is /ˈpɝsɚ/.

Is purser a common word?

purser is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.