ladder

1. 1.

   come unraveled or undone as if by snagging

   “Her nylons were running”

   Synonymsrun

   Broaderbreak

Other forms of ladder

plural

ladders·

past tense

ladderred·

present participle

ladderring·

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 ladder

What does ladder mean?

ladder means "steps consisting of two parallel members connected by rungs; for climbing up or down". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ladder?

ladder has 2 syllables: lad-der. The stress falls on "lad". In IPA it is /ˈlædɚ/.

What is another word for ladder?

Close synonyms include run, ravel, run. 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 ladder a common word?

ladder 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.