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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
locomote is a verb meaning "change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically". It carries one recorded sense.
change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically
“How fast does your new car go?”
“We travelled from Rome to Naples by bus”
“The policemen went from door to door looking for the suspect”
“The soldiers moved towards the city in an attempt to take it before night fell”
“news travelled fast”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for locomote come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.