stevedore

Other forms of stevedore

plural

stevedores·

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 stevedore

What does stevedore mean?

stevedore means "a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port".

How many syllables are in stevedore?

stevedore has 3 syllables: ste-ve-dore. The stress falls on "ste". In IPA it is /ˈstivəˌdɔɹ/.

What is another word for stevedore?

Close synonyms include loader, longshoreman, docker, dockhand, dock worker. 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 stevedore a common word?

stevedore 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.

What rhymes with stevedore?

11 words rhyme with stevedore. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.