mantle

1. 1.

   spread over a surface, like a mantle

   Broaderdiffuse
2. 2.

   cover like a mantle

   “The ivy mantles the building”

   Broadercover

Other forms of mantle

plural

mantles·

past tense

mantled·

present participle

mantling·

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 mantle

What does mantle mean?

mantle means "the cloak as a symbol of authority". That is the primary sense; the word has 10 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in mantle?

mantle has 2 syllables: man-tle. The stress falls on "man". In IPA it is /ˈmæntəl/.

What is another word for mantle?

Close synonyms include Mickey Mantle, Mickey Charles Mantle, blanket, pallium, mantel. 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 mantle a common word?

mantle 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 mantle?

1 word rhymes with mantle. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.