reservoir

Other forms of reservoir

plural

reservoirs·

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 reservoir

What does reservoir mean?

reservoir means "a large or extra supply of something". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in reservoir?

reservoir has 3 syllables: res-er-voir. The stress falls on "res". In IPA it is /ˈɹɛzəvˌwɑɹ/.

What is another word for reservoir?

Close synonyms include artificial lake, man-made lake, source. 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 reservoir a common word?

reservoir 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.

What rhymes with reservoir?

2 words rhyme with reservoir. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.