ordain

Other forms of ordain

past tense

ordained·

present participle

ordaining·

third person

ordains·

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 ordain

What does ordain mean?

ordain means "order by virtue of superior authority; decree". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ordain?

ordain has 2 syllables: or-dain. The stress falls on "dain". In IPA it is /ɔɹˈdeɪn/.

What is another word for ordain?

Close synonyms include enact, consecrate, ordinate, order. 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 ordain a common word?

ordain is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met 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 ordain?

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