ivory

Other forms of ivory

plural

ivories·

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 ivory

What does ivory mean?

ivory means "a hard smooth ivory colored dentine that makes up most of the tusks of elephants and walruses". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ivory?

ivory has 3 syllables: i-vo-ry. The stress falls on "i". In IPA it is /ˈaɪvɚi/.

What is another word for ivory?

Close synonyms include tusk, bone, pearl, off-white. 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 ivory a common word?

ivory 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.