slaughterer

Questions about slaughterer

What does slaughterer mean?

slaughterer means "a person who slaughters or dresses meat for market".

How many syllables are in slaughterer?

slaughterer has 3 syllables and divides as slaugh-te-rer under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for slaughterer?

Close synonyms include butcher. 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 slaughterer a common word?

slaughterer 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.