windcheater

1. 1.

   a kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term)

   Synonymsparkawindbreakeranorak

   Broaderjacket

   Narrowercagouleski parka

   United Kingdom

Other forms of windcheater

plural

windcheaters·

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 windcheater

What does windcheater mean?

windcheater means "a kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term)".

How many syllables are in windcheater?

windcheater has 4 syllables and divides as wind-che-a-ter 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.

What is another word for windcheater?

Close synonyms include parka, windbreaker, anorak. 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 windcheater a common word?

windcheater 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.