pine

1. 1.

   have a desire for something or someone who is not present

   “She ached for a cigarette”

   “I am pining for my lover”

   Synonymsacheyearnyenlanguish

   Broaderhanker

   Narrowerdie

Other forms of pine

plural

pines·

past tense

pined·

present participle

pining·

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 pine

What does pine mean?

pine means "a coniferous tree". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pine?

pine has 1 syllable: pine. In IPA it is /ˈpaɪn/.

What is another word for pine?

Close synonyms include pine tree, true pine, ache, yearn, yen. 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 pine a common word?

pine 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 pine?

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