tarmacadam

Other forms of tarmacadam

plural

tarmacadams·

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 tarmacadam

What does tarmacadam mean?

tarmacadam means "a paving material of tar and broken stone; mixed in a factory and shaped during paving". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in tarmacadam?

tarmacadam has 4 syllables: tar-ma-ca-dam. The stress falls on "ma".

What is another word for tarmacadam?

Close synonyms include tarmac, tarmac, macadam. 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 tarmacadam a common word?

tarmacadam 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.