nonstop

1. 1.

   a flight made without intermediate stops between source and destination

   “how many nonstops are there to Dallas?”

   Synonymsnonstop flight

   Broaderflight

1. 1.

   without stopping

   “we are flying nonstop form New York to Tokyo”

Other forms of nonstop

plural

nonstops·

comparative

nonstopper·

superlative

nonstoppest·

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 nonstop

What does nonstop mean?

nonstop means "(of a journey especially a flight) occurring without stops". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in nonstop?

nonstop has 2 syllables: non-stop. The stress falls on "stop". In IPA it is /ˌnɑnˈstɑp/.

What is another word for nonstop?

Close synonyms include around-the-clock, day-and-night, round-the-clock, nonstop flight. 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 nonstop a common word?

nonstop 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 nonstop?

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