berry

1. 1.

   pick or gather berries

   “We went berrying in the summer”

   Broaderpick

   Narrowerblackberry

Other forms of berry

plural

berries·

past tense or participle

berried

present participle

berrying·

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 berry

What does berry mean?

berry means "any of numerous small and pulpy edible fruits; used as desserts or in making jams and jellies and preserves". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in berry?

berry has 2 syllables: ber-ry. The stress falls on "ber". In IPA it is /ˈbɛɹi/.

What is another word for berry?

Close synonyms include Chuck Berry, Charles Edward Berry. 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 berry a common word?

berry is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. 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 berry?

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