waterman

Other forms of waterman

plural

watermans·

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 waterman

What does waterman mean?

waterman means "someone who drives or rides in a boat".

How many syllables are in waterman?

waterman has 3 syllables: wa-ter-man. The stress falls on "wa". In IPA it is /ˈwɔtɚmən/.

What is another word for waterman?

Close synonyms include boatman, boater. 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 waterman a common word?

waterman is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.