manicure

1. 1.

   trim carefully and neatly

   “manicure fingernails”

   Broadercut
2. 2.

   care for (one's hand) by cutting and shaping the nails, etc.

   Broadergroom

1. 1.

   professional care for the hands and fingernails

   Broadercarebeauty treatment

Other forms of manicure

plural

manicures·

past tense

manicured·

present participle

manicuring·

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 manicure

What does manicure mean?

manicure means "trim carefully and neatly". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in manicure?

manicure has 3 syllables: man-i-cure. The stress falls on "man". In IPA it is /ˈmænɪkjɚ/.

Is manicure a common word?

manicure 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.