covenant

1. 1.

   enter into a covenant

   Broaderpledge

   Narrowerconfirmbar mitzvahbat mitzvah

   religion

2. 2.

   enter into a covenant or formal agreement

   “They covenanted with Judas for 30 pieces of silver”

   “The nations covenanted to fight terrorism around the world”

   Broaderpledge

   Narrowercommunecommunicate

Other forms of covenant

plural

covenants·

past tense

covenanted·

present participle

covenanting·

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 covenant

What does covenant mean?

covenant means "a signed written agreement between two or more parties (nations) to perform some action". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in covenant?

covenant has 3 syllables: cov-e-nant. The stress falls on "cov". In IPA it is /ˈkʌvənənt/.

What is another word for covenant?

Close synonyms include compact, concordat. 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 covenant a common word?

covenant 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.