revolver

Other forms of revolver

plural

revolvers·

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 revolver

What does revolver mean?

revolver means "a pistol with a revolving cylinder (usually having six chambers for bullets)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in revolver?

revolver has 3 syllables: re-vol-ver. The stress falls on "vol". In IPA it is /ɹɪˈvɑlvɚ/.

What is another word for revolver?

Close synonyms include six-gun, six-shooter, revolving door. 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 revolver a common word?

revolver 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.