recliner

1. 1.

   an armchair whose back can be lowered and foot can be raised to allow the sitter to recline in it

   Synonymsreclining chairlounger

   Broaderarmchair

Other forms of recliner

plural

recliners·

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 recliner

What does recliner mean?

recliner means "an armchair whose back can be lowered and foot can be raised to allow the sitter to recline in it".

How many syllables are in recliner?

recliner has 3 syllables: re-cli-ner. The stress falls on "cli". In IPA it is /ɹɪˈklaɪnɚ/.

What is another word for recliner?

Close synonyms include reclining chair, lounger. 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 recliner a common word?

recliner 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.