picnic

1. 1.

   eat alfresco, in the open air

   “We picnicked near the lake on this gorgeous Sunday”

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Other forms of picnic

plural

picnics·

past tense or participle

picnicked

present participle

picnicking

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 picnic

What does picnic mean?

picnic means "a day devoted to an outdoor social gathering". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in picnic?

picnic has 2 syllables: pic-nic. The stress falls on "pic". In IPA it is /ˈpɪkˌnɪk/.

What is another word for picnic?

Close synonyms include field day, outing, cinch, breeze, snap. 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 picnic a common word?

picnic 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 picnic?

1 word rhymes with picnic. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.