semitrailer

1. 1.

   a trailer having wheels only in the rear; the front is supported by the towing vehicle

   Synonymssemi

   Broadertrailer

   Part oftrailer truck

Other forms of semitrailer

plural

semitrailers·

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 semitrailer

What does semitrailer mean?

semitrailer means "a trailer having wheels only in the rear; the front is supported by the towing vehicle".

How many syllables are in semitrailer?

semitrailer has 4 syllables: sem-i-trai-ler. The stress falls on "trai". In IPA it is /ˌsɛmiˈtɹeɪlɚ/.

What is another word for semitrailer?

Close synonyms include semi. 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 semitrailer a common word?

semitrailer 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.

What rhymes with semitrailer?

1 word rhymes with semitrailer. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.