concrete

1. 1.

   a strong hard building material composed of sand and gravel and cement and water

   Broaderbuilding materialpaving

   Narrowercementreinforced concrete

Other forms of concrete

plural

concretes·

past tense

concreted·

present participle

concreting·

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 concrete

What does concrete mean?

concrete means "cover with cement". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in concrete?

concrete has 2 syllables: con-crete. The stress falls on "crete". In IPA it is /kənˈkɹit/.

What is the opposite of concrete?

The recorded antonyms are abstract.

Is concrete a common word?

concrete is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. 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 concrete?

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