include

Other forms of include

past tense

included·

present participle

including·

third person

includes·

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 include

What does include mean?

include means "have as a part, be made up out of". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in include?

include has 2 syllables: in-clude. The stress falls on "clude". In IPA it is /ˌɪnˈklud/.

What is another word for include?

Close synonyms include admit, let in. 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.

What is the opposite of include?

The recorded antonyms are exclude, exclude.

Is include a common word?

include 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 include?

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