peal

1. 1.

   a deep prolonged sound (as of thunder or large bells)

   Synonymspealingrollrolling

   Broadersound

Other forms of peal

plural

peals·

past tense

pealed·

present participle

pealing·

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 peal

What does peal mean?

peal means "ring recurrently". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in peal?

peal has 1 syllable: peal. In IPA it is /ˈpil/.

What is another word for peal?

Close synonyms include ring, pealing, roll, rolling. 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 peal a common word?

peal 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.

What rhymes with peal?

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