jet

1. 1.

   issue in a jet; come out in a jet; stream or spring forth

   “Water jetted forth”

   “flames were jetting out of the building”

   Synonymsgush

   Broaderrun
2. 2.

   fly a jet plane

   Broaderfly

   air travel

1. 1.

   of the blackest black; similar to the color of jet or coal

   Synonymscoal-blackjet-blackpitchysooty

   Similarachromatic

Other forms of jet

plural

jets·

past tense or participle

jetted

present participle

jetting

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 jet

What does jet mean?

jet means "an airplane powered by one or more jet engines". That is the primary sense; the word has 9 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in jet?

jet has 1 syllable: jet. In IPA it is /ˈdʒɛt/.

What is another word for jet?

Close synonyms include jet plane, jet-propelled plane, squirt, spurt, spirt. 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 jet a common word?

jet 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 jet?

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