cede

Other forms of cede

past tense

ceded·

present participle

ceding·

third person

cedes·

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 cede

What does cede mean?

cede means "give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cede?

cede has 1 syllable: cede. In IPA it is /ˈsid/.

What is another word for cede?

Close synonyms include concede, yield, grant, surrender, deliver. 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 cede a common word?

cede 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 cede?

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