hormone

Other forms of hormone

plural

hormones·

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 hormone

What does hormone mean?

hormone means "the secretion of an endocrine gland that is transmitted by the blood to the tissue on which it has a specific effect".

How many syllables are in hormone?

hormone has 2 syllables: hor-mone. The stress falls on "hor". In IPA it is /ˈhɔɹˌmoʊn/.

What is another word for hormone?

Close synonyms include endocrine, internal secretion. 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 hormone a common word?

hormone is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. 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 hormone?

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