balloon

1. 1.

   ride in a hot-air balloon

   “He tried to balloon around the earth but storms forced him to land in China”

   Broaderfly
2. 2.

   become inflated

   “The sails ballooned”

   Synonymsinflatebillow

   Broaderexpand

   Narrowerreflate

Other forms of balloon

plural

balloons·

past tense

ballooned·

present participle

ballooning·

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 balloon

What does balloon mean?

balloon means "large tough nonrigid bag filled with gas or heated air". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in balloon?

balloon has 2 syllables: bal-loon. The stress falls on "loon". In IPA it is /bəˈlun/.

What is another word for balloon?

Close synonyms include inflate, billow. 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 balloon a common word?

balloon is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with balloon?

3 words rhyme with balloon. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.