sermon

Other forms of sermon

plural

sermons·

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 sermon

What does sermon mean?

sermon means "an address of a religious nature (usually delivered during a church service)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sermon?

sermon has 2 syllables: ser-mon. The stress falls on "ser". In IPA it is /ˈsɝmən/.

What is another word for sermon?

Close synonyms include discourse, preaching, preaching. 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 sermon a common word?

sermon 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.