amain

1. 1.

   at full speed; with great haste

   “the children ran down the hill amain”
2. 2.

   with all your strength

   “he pulled the ropes amain”

Questions about amain

What does amain mean?

amain means "at full speed; with great haste". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in amain?

amain has 2 syllables: a-main. The stress falls on "a".

Is amain a common word?

amain 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.