roadman

Other forms of roadman

plural

roadmans·

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 roadman

What does roadman mean?

roadman means "a salesman who travels to call on customers". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in roadman?

roadman has 3 syllables: ro-ad-man. The stress falls on "ro".

What is another word for roadman?

Close synonyms include traveling salesman, travelling salesman, commercial traveler, commercial traveller, bagman. 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 roadman a common word?

roadman is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.