manure

Other forms of manure

plural

manures·

past tense

manured·

present participle

manuring·

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 manure

What does manure mean?

manure means "any animal or plant material used to fertilize land especially animal excreta usually with litter material". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in manure?

manure has 2 syllables: ma-nure. The stress falls on "nure". In IPA it is /məˈnʊɹ/.

What is another word for manure?

Close synonyms include muck. 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 manure a common word?

manure 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.