stratum

Other forms of stratum

plural

strata

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 stratum

What does stratum mean?

stratum means "one of several parallel layers of material arranged one on top of another (such as a layer of tissue or cells in an organism or a layer of sedimentary rock)". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in stratum?

stratum has 2 syllables: strat-um. The stress falls on "strat". In IPA it is /ˈstɹætəm/.

What is another word for stratum?

Close synonyms include class, social class, socio-economic class, level, layer. 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 stratum a common word?

stratum 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.