slaver

1. 1.

   let saliva drivel from the mouth

   “The baby drooled”

   Synonymsdriveldroolslabberslobberdribble

   Broadersalivate

Other forms of slaver

plural

slavers·

past tense

slaverred·

present participle

slaverring·

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 slaver

What does slaver mean?

slaver means "a person engaged in slave trade". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in slaver?

slaver has 2 syllables and divides as sla-ver 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 slaver?

Close synonyms include slave dealer, slave trader, slaveholder, slave owner, drivel. 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 slaver a common word?

slaver is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.