canvas

1. 1.

   cover with canvas

   “She canvassed the walls of her living room so as to conceal the ugly cracks”

   Broadercover

Other forms of canvas

plural

canvases·

past tense

canvased·

present participle

canvasing·

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 canvas

What does canvas mean?

canvas means "a heavy, closely woven fabric (used for clothing or chairs or sails or tents)". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in canvas?

canvas has 2 syllables: can-vas. The stress falls on "can". In IPA it is /ˈkænvəs/.

What is another word for canvas?

Close synonyms include canvass, canvass, canvass, canvas tent, canvass. 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 canvas a common word?

canvas 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 canvas?

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