drawstring

1. 1.

   a tie consisting of a cord that goes through a seam around an opening

   “he pulled the drawstring and closed the bag”

   Synonymsdrawing stringstring

   Broadertie

   Narrowerpurse string

   Part ofdrawstring bag

Other forms of drawstring

plural

drawstrings·

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 drawstring

What does drawstring mean?

drawstring means "a tie consisting of a cord that goes through a seam around an opening".

How many syllables are in drawstring?

drawstring has 2 syllables: draw-string. The stress falls on "draw".

What is another word for drawstring?

Close synonyms include drawing string, string. 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 drawstring a common word?

drawstring is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.