margarine

Questions about margarine

What does margarine mean?

margarine means "a spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter".

How many syllables are in margarine?

margarine has 3 syllables: mar-ga-rine. The stress falls on "mar". In IPA it is /ˈmɑɹdʒɚən/.

What is another word for margarine?

Close synonyms include margarin, oleo, oleomargarine, marge. 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 margarine a common word?

margarine is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.