carpet

1. 1.

   form a carpet-like cover (over)

   Broadercover
2. 2.

   cover completely, as if with a carpet

   “flowers carpeted the meadows”

   Broadercover
3. 3.

   cover with a carpet

   “carpet the floors of the house”

   Broadercover

1. 1.

   floor covering consisting of a piece of thick heavy fabric (usually with nap or pile)

   Synonymsrugcarpeting

   Broaderfloor coverfurnishing

   NarrowerbroadloomBrussels carpetdruggetflying carpethearthrugKurdistannumdahprayer rugred carpetrunner

   Partsedging
2. 2.

   a natural object that resembles or suggests a carpet

   “a carpet of flowers”

   “the larvae of some moths spin a web that resembles a carpet”

   Broadernatural object

Other forms of carpet

plural

carpets·

past tense

carpetted·

present participle

carpetting·

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 carpet

What does carpet mean?

carpet means "form a carpet-like cover (over)". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in carpet?

carpet has 2 syllables: car-pet. The stress falls on "car". In IPA it is /ˈkɑɹpət/.

What is another word for carpet?

Close synonyms include rug, carpeting. 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 carpet a common word?

carpet 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.