ginger

1. 1.

   add ginger to in order to add flavor

   “ginger the soup”

   Broaderzest

   cooking

1. 1.

   (used especially of hair or fur) having a bright orange-brown color

   “a man with gingery hair and bright blue eyes”

   “a ginger kitten”

   Synonymsgingery

   Similarcolored

Other forms of ginger

plural

gingers·

past tense

gingerred·

present participle

gingerring·

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 ginger

What does ginger mean?

ginger means "perennial plants having thick branching aromatic rhizomes and leafy reedlike stems". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ginger?

ginger has 2 syllables: gin-ger. The stress falls on "gin". In IPA it is /ˈdʒɪndʒɚ/.

What is another word for ginger?

Close synonyms include powdered ginger, gingerroot, pep, peppiness, gingery. 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 ginger a common word?

ginger 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.