cement

1. 1.

   make fast as if with cement

   “We cemented our friendship”

   Broaderbind
2. 2.

   cover or coat with cement

   Broadercoat
3. 3.

   bind or join with or as if with cement

   Broaderfasten

Other forms of cement

plural

cements·

past tense

cemented·

present participle

cementing·

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 cement

What does cement mean?

cement means "concrete pavement is sometimes referred to as cement". That is the primary sense; the word has 8 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cement?

cement has 2 syllables: ce-ment. The stress falls on "ment". In IPA it is /səˈmɛnt/.

What is another word for cement?

Close synonyms include cementum. 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 cement a common word?

cement 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 cement?

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