frost

1. 1.

   ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside)

   Synonymshoarhoarfrostrime

   Broaderice
2. 2.

   weather cold enough to cause freezing

   Synonymsfreeze

   Broadercold weather
3. 3.

   the formation of frost or ice on a surface

   Synonymsicing

   Broaderfreeze
4. 4.

   United States poet famous for his lyrical poems on country life in New England (1874-1963)

   SynonymsRobert FrostRobert Lee Frost

   Broaderpoet

1. 1.

   decorate with frosting

   “frost a cake”

   Synonymsice

   Broadercover

   cooking

2. 2.

   provide with a rough or speckled surface or appearance

   “frost the glass”

   “she frosts her hair”

   Broadercover
3. 3.

   cover with frost

   “ice crystals frosted the glass”

   Broadercover
4. 4.

   damage by frost

   “The icy precipitation frosted the flowers and they turned brown”

   Broaderdamage

Other forms of frost

plural

frosts·

past tense

frosted·

present participle

frosting·

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 frost

What does frost mean?

frost means "ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside)". That is the primary sense; the word has 8 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in frost?

frost has 1 syllable: frost. In IPA it is /ˈfɹɔst/.

What is another word for frost?

Close synonyms include hoar, hoarfrost, rime, freeze, icing. 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 frost a common word?

frost 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 frost?

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