thomas

Other forms of thomas

plural

thomases·

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 thomas

What does thomas mean?

thomas means "United States clockmaker who introduced mass production (1785-1859)". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in thomas?

thomas has 2 syllables: tho-mas. The stress falls on "tho". In IPA it is /ˈtɑməs/.

What is another word for thomas?

Close synonyms include Seth Thomas, Norman Thomas, Norman Mattoon Thomas, Lowell Thomas, Lowell Jackson Thomas. 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 thomas a common word?

thomas is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.