flower

1. 1.

   produce or yield flowers

   “The cherry tree bloomed”

   Synonymsbloomblossom

   Broaderdevelop

   Narrowereffloresce

Other forms of flower

plural

flowers·

past tense

flowerred·

present participle

flowerring·

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 flower

What does flower mean?

flower means "a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in flower?

flower has 2 syllables: flo-wer. The stress falls on "flo". In IPA it is /ˈflaʊɚ/.

What is another word for flower?

Close synonyms include bloom, blossom, prime, peak, heyday. 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 flower a common word?

flower is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. 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 flower?

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