maintain

Other forms of maintain

past tense

maintained·

present participle

maintaining·

third person

maintains·

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 maintain

What does maintain mean?

maintain means "cause to continue in a certain state, position, or activity; e.g., `keep clean'". That is the primary sense; the word has 10 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in maintain?

maintain has 2 syllables: main-tain. The stress falls on "tain". In IPA it is /meɪnˈteɪn/.

What is another word for maintain?

Close synonyms include keep, hold, conserve, preserve, keep up. 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 maintain a common word?

maintain 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 maintain?

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