cocain

1. 1.

   a narcotic (alkaloid) extracted from coca leaves; used as a surface anesthetic or taken for pleasure; can become powerfully addictive

   Synonymscocaine

   Broaderhard drug

   Narrowerbasucocokecrack

Other forms of cocain

plural

cocains·

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 cocain

What does cocain mean?

cocain means "a narcotic (alkaloid) extracted from coca leaves; used as a surface anesthetic or taken for pleasure; can become powerfully addictive".

How many syllables are in cocain?

cocain has 2 syllables: co-cain. The stress falls on "co".

What is another word for cocain?

Close synonyms include cocaine. 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 cocain a common word?

cocain is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.