decree

1. 1.

   a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge)

   “a friend in New Mexico said that the order caused no trouble out there”

   Synonymsedictfiatorderrescript

   Broaderact

   Narrowerconsent decreecurfewdecree nisiimperial decreelegal separationprogrammaprohibitionstaybull

   law

Other forms of decree

plural

decrees·

past tense

decreed·

present participle

decreeing·

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 decree

What does decree mean?

decree means "issue a decree". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in decree?

decree has 2 syllables: de-cree. The stress falls on "cree". In IPA it is /dɪˈkɹi/.

What is another word for decree?

Close synonyms include rule, edict, fiat, order, rescript. 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 decree a common word?

decree 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 decree?

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