proclaim

Other forms of proclaim

past tense

proclaimed·

present participle

proclaiming·

third person

proclaims·

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 proclaim

What does proclaim mean?

proclaim means "declare formally; declare someone to be something; of titles". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in proclaim?

proclaim has 2 syllables: pro-claim. The stress falls on "claim". In IPA it is /pɹoʊˈkleɪm/.

What is another word for proclaim?

Close synonyms include exclaim, promulgate, predicate, laud, extol. 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 proclaim a common word?

proclaim is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for 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 proclaim?

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