cedar

Other forms of cedar

plural

cedars·

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 cedar

What does cedar mean?

cedar means "any of numerous trees of the family Cupressaceae that resemble cedars". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cedar?

cedar has 2 syllables: ce-dar. The stress falls on "ce". In IPA it is /ˈsidɚ/.

What is another word for cedar?

Close synonyms include cedar tree, cedarwood, cedar tree, true cedar. 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 cedar a common word?

cedar 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.