button

1. 1.

   provide with buttons

   “button a shirt”

   Broaderadd
2. 2.

   fasten with buttons

   “button the dress”

   Antonymsunbutton

   Broaderfasten

Other forms of button

plural

buttons·

past tense

buttonned·

present participle

buttonning·

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 button

What does button mean?

button means "a round fastener sewn to shirts and coats etc to fit through buttonholes". That is the primary sense; the word has 9 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in button?

button has 2 syllables: but-ton. The stress falls on "but". In IPA it is /ˈbʌtən/.

What is another word for button?

Close synonyms include push button, push, clitoris, clit, release. 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.

What is the opposite of button?

The recorded antonyms are unbutton.

Is button a common word?

button 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 button?

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