bud

1. 1.

   develop buds

   “The hibiscus is budding!”

   Broaderdevelop
2. 2.

   start to grow or develop

   “a budding friendship”

   Broaderbegin

Other forms of bud

plural

buds·

past tense or participle

budded

present participle

budding

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 bud

What does bud mean?

bud means "a partially opened flower". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bud?

bud has 1 syllable: bud. In IPA it is /ˈbʌd/.

Is bud a common word?

bud 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 bud?

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