pace

1. 1.

   walk with slow or fast paces

   “He paced up and down the hall”

   Broaderwalk
2. 2.

   go at a pace

   “The horse paced”

   Broadertravel

   Narrowercanterwalksingle-footgallop
3. 3.

   measure (distances) by pacing

   “step off ten yards”

   Synonymsstep

   Broaderquantify
4. 4.

   regulate or set the pace of

   “Pace your efforts”

   Broaderdetermine

Other forms of pace

plural

paces·

past tense

paced·

present participle

pacing·

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 pace

What does pace mean?

pace means "the rate of moving (especially walking or running)". That is the primary sense; the word has 10 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pace?

pace has 1 syllable: pace. In IPA it is /ˈpeɪs/.

What is another word for pace?

Close synonyms include gait, footstep, step, stride, rate. 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 pace a common word?

pace is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. 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 pace?

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