calico

1. 1.

   coarse cloth with a bright print

   Broaderfabric

Other forms of calico

plural

calicoes

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 calico

What does calico mean?

calico means "made of calico or resembling calico in being patterned". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in calico?

calico has 3 syllables: cal-i-co. The stress falls on "cal". In IPA it is /ˈkæləˌkoʊ/.

What is another word for calico?

Close synonyms include motley, multicolor, multi-color, multicolour, multi-colour. 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 calico a common word?

calico is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. 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 calico?

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