keynote

1. 1.

   set the keynote of

   “Comfort keynotes this designer's Fall collection”

   Broaderset
2. 2.

   give the keynote address to (an audience)

   Broaderaddress

Other forms of keynote

plural

keynotes·

past tense

keynoted·

present participle

keynoting·

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 keynote

What does keynote mean?

keynote means "the principal theme in a speech or literary work". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in keynote?

keynote has 2 syllables: key-note. The stress falls on "key". In IPA it is /ˈkiˌnoʊt/.

What is another word for keynote?

Close synonyms include tonic. 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 keynote a common word?

keynote is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. 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 keynote?

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