small-arm

Questions about small-arm

What does small-arm mean?

small-arm means "a portable gun".

How many syllables are in small-arm?

small-arm has 2 syllables and divides as smal-l-arm 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 small-arm?

Close synonyms include firearm, piece. 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 small-arm a common word?

small-arm 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.