cub

1. 1.

   give birth to cubs

   “bears cub every year”

   Broadergive birth

Other forms of cub

plural

cubs·

past tense or participle

cubbed

present participle

cubbing

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 cub

What does cub mean?

cub means "an awkward and inexperienced youth". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cub?

cub has 1 syllable: cub. In IPA it is /ˈkʌb/.

What is another word for cub?

Close synonyms include greenhorn, rookie, lad, laddie, sonny. 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 cub a common word?

cub 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.