belly

1. 1.

   swell out or bulge out

   Synonymsbelly out

   Broaderswell

Other forms of belly

plural

bellies·

past tense or participle

bellied

present participle

bellying·

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 belly

What does belly mean?

belly means "the region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and the pelvis". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in belly?

belly has 2 syllables: bel-ly. The stress falls on "bel". In IPA it is /ˈbɛli/.

What is another word for belly?

Close synonyms include abdomen, venter, stomach, paunch, belly out. 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 belly a common word?

belly 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 belly?

1 word rhymes with belly. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.