indent

1. 1.

   an order for goods to be exported or imported

   Broaderorder

   United Kingdom

2. 2.

   the space left between the margin and the start of an indented line

   Synonymsindentationindentionindenture

   Broaderspace

Other forms of indent

plural

indents·

past tense

indented·

present participle

indenting·

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 indent

What does indent mean?

indent means "set in from the margin". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in indent?

indent has 2 syllables: in-dent. The stress falls on "dent". In IPA it is /ˌɪnˈdɛnt/.

What is another word for indent?

Close synonyms include dent, indenture, indentation, indention, indenture. 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 indent a common word?

indent is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met 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 indent?

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