surmounter

What does surmounter mean?

surmounter means "someone who overcomes and establishes ascendancy and control by force or persuasion".

How many syllables are in surmounter?

surmounter has 3 syllables and divides as sur-moun-ter 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 surmounter?

Close synonyms include subduer, overcomer. 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 surmounter a common word?

surmounter 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for surmounter come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.