churn

1. 1.

   a vessel in which cream is agitated to separate butterfat from buttermilk

   Synonymsbutter churn

   Broadervessel

Other forms of churn

plural

churns·

past tense

churned·

present participle

churning·

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 churn

What does churn mean?

churn means "stir (cream) vigorously in order to make butter". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in churn?

churn has 1 syllable: churn. In IPA it is /ˈtʃɝn/.

What is another word for churn?

Close synonyms include boil, moil, roil, butter churn. 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 churn a common word?

churn 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.