cotton

1. 1.

   take a liking to

   “cotton to something”

   Broaderlike

Other forms of cotton

plural

cottons·

past tense

cottonned·

present participle

cottonning·

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 cotton

What does cotton mean?

cotton means "soft silky fibers from cotton plants in their raw state". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cotton?

cotton has 2 syllables: cot-ton. The stress falls on "cot". In IPA it is /ˈkɑtən/.

What is another word for cotton?

Close synonyms include cotton fiber, cotton wool, cotton plant. 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 cotton a common word?

cotton 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 cotton?

1 word rhymes with cotton. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.