secretary

Other forms of secretary

plural

secretaries·

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 secretary

What does secretary mean?

secretary means "a person who is head of an administrative department of government". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in secretary?

secretary has 4 syllables: sec-re-tar-y. The stress falls on "sec". In IPA it is /ˈsɛkɹəˌtɛɹi/.

What is another word for secretary?

Close synonyms include secretarial assistant, repository, writing table, escritoire, secretaire. 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 secretary a common word?

secretary is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. 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 secretary?

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