finger

1. 1.

   any of the terminal members of the hand (sometimes excepting the thumb)

   “her fingers were long and thin”

   Broaderdigitextremity

   Narrowerthumbindexring fingermiddle fingerlittle finger

   Part ofhand

   Partspadfingertipfingernailknuckle
2. 2.

   the length of breadth of a finger used as a linear measure

   Synonymsfingerbreadthfinger's breadthdigit

   Broaderlinear unit
3. 3.

   one of the parts of a glove that provides covering for a finger or thumb

   Broadercovering

   Part ofglove

Other forms of finger

plural

fingers·

past tense

fingerred·

present participle

fingerring·

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 finger

What does finger mean?

finger means "feel or handle with the fingers". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in finger?

finger has 2 syllables: fin-ger. The stress falls on "fin". In IPA it is /ˈfɪŋɡɚ/.

What is another word for finger?

Close synonyms include thumb, feel, fingerbreadth, finger's breadth, digit. 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 finger a common word?

finger 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 finger?

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