collaborate

1. 1.

   work together on a common enterprise of project

   “The soprano and the pianist did not get together very well”

   “We joined forces with another research group”

   Synonymsjoin forcescooperateget together

   Broaderwork

   Narrowerplay along
2. 2.

   cooperate as a traitor

   “he collaborated with the Nazis when they occupied Paris”

Other forms of collaborate

past tense

collaborated·

present participle

collaborating·

third person

collaborates·

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 collaborate

What does collaborate mean?

collaborate means "work together on a common enterprise of project". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in collaborate?

collaborate has 4 syllables: col-lab-o-rate. The stress falls on "lab". In IPA it is /kəˈlæbɚˌeɪt/.

What is another word for collaborate?

Close synonyms include join forces, cooperate, get together. 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 collaborate a common word?

collaborate 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 collaborate?

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