steam-heat

1. 1.

   heat by means of steam

   Broaderheat

Questions about steam-heat

What does steam-heat mean?

steam-heat means "heat by means of steam".

How many syllables are in steam-heat?

steam-heat has 4 syllables and divides as ste-am--he-at 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.

Is steam-heat a common word?

steam-heat 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.