red-carpet

1. 1.

   special treatment or hospitality

   “the maitre d' gave them the red-carpet treatment”

   Synonymsred carpet

   Similaruncommon

Questions about red-carpet

What does red-carpet mean?

red-carpet means "special treatment or hospitality".

How many syllables are in red-carpet?

red-carpet has 3 syllables and divides as red--car-pet 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.

What is another word for red-carpet?

Close synonyms include red carpet. 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.