shielder

Other forms of shielder

plural

shielders·

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 shielder

What does shielder mean?

shielder means "a person who cares for persons or property".

How many syllables are in shielder?

shielder has 2 syllables: shiel-der. The stress falls on "shiel".

What is another word for shielder?

Close synonyms include defender, guardian, protector. 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 shielder a common word?

shielder 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.