girth

1. 1.

   tie a cinch around

   “cinch horses”

   Synonymscinch

   Broaderfasten

Other forms of girth

plural

girths·

past tense

girthed·

present participle

girthing·

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 girth

What does girth mean?

girth means "the distance around a person's body". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in girth?

girth has 1 syllable: girth. In IPA it is /ˈɡɝθ/.

What is another word for girth?

Close synonyms include cinch, cinch. 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 girth a common word?

girth is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.