lark

1. 1.

   play boisterously

   “The children frolicked in the garden”

   “the gamboling lambs in the meadows”

   “The toddlers romped in the playroom”

   Synonymsfrolicrollickskylarkdisportsportcavortgambolfriskromprun aroundlark about

   Broaderplay

Other forms of lark

plural

larks·

past tense

larked·

present participle

larking·

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 lark

What does lark mean?

lark means "North American songbirds having a yellow breast". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in lark?

lark has 1 syllable: lark. In IPA it is /ˈlɑɹk/.

What is another word for lark?

Close synonyms include meadowlark, pipit, titlark, escapade, frolic. 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 lark a common word?

lark 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.

What rhymes with lark?

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