tailor

1. 1.

   a person whose occupation is making and altering garments

   Synonymsseamstersartor

   Broadergarmentmaker

   Narrowerfitter

Other forms of tailor

plural

tailors·

past tense

tailorred·

present participle

tailorring·

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 tailor

What does tailor mean?

tailor means "adjust to a specific need or market". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in tailor?

tailor has 2 syllables: tai-lor. The stress falls on "tai". In IPA it is /ˈteɪlɚ/.

What is another word for tailor?

Close synonyms include orient, cut, sew, tailor-make, seamster. 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 tailor a common word?

tailor is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for 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 tailor?

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