in

1. 1.

   holding office

   “the in party”

   Similarsuccessful
2. 2.

   directed or bound inward

   “took the in bus”

   “the in basket”

   Similarincoming
3. 3.

   currently fashionable

   “the in thing to do”

   “large shoulder pads are in”

   Similarfashionable

   colloquialism

1. 1.

   to or toward the inside of

   “come in”

   “smash in the door”

   Synonymsinwardsinward

Other forms of in

plural

ins·

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 in

What does in mean?

in means "a unit of length equal to one twelfth of a foot". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in in?

in has 1 syllable: in. In IPA it is /ɪn/.

What is another word for in?

Close synonyms include inch, indium, atomic number 49, Indiana, Hoosier State. 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 in a common word?

in is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.