ventriloquist

1. 1.

   a performer who projects the voice into a wooden dummy

   Broaderperformer

Other forms of ventriloquist

plural

ventriloquists·

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 ventriloquist

What does ventriloquist mean?

ventriloquist means "a performer who projects the voice into a wooden dummy".

How many syllables are in ventriloquist?

ventriloquist has 4 syllables and divides as ven-tri-loq-uist 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.