steam-powered

1. 1.

   powered by a steam engine

   “a steam-powered locomotive”

   Similarpowered

Questions about steam-powered

What does steam-powered mean?

steam-powered means "powered by a steam engine".

How many syllables are in steam-powered?

steam-powered has 4 syllables and divides as steam--po-we-red 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-powered a common word?

steam-powered 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.