eye

1. 1.

   look at

   Synonymseyeball

   Broaderlook

Other forms of eye

plural

eyes·

past tense

eyed·

present participle

eying·

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 eye

What does eye mean?

eye means "the organ of sight". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in eye?

eye has 1 syllable: eye. In IPA it is /ˈaɪ/.

What is another word for eye?

Close synonyms include oculus, optic, center, centre, middle. 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 eye a common word?

eye is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. 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 eye?

5 words rhyme with eye. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.