promote

Other forms of promote

past tense

promoted·

present participle

promoting·

third person

promotes·

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 promote

What does promote mean?

promote means "contribute to the progress or growth of". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in promote?

promote has 2 syllables: pro-mote. The stress falls on "mote". In IPA it is /pɹəˈmoʊt/.

What is another word for promote?

Close synonyms include advance, boost, further, encourage, upgrade. 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.

What is the opposite of promote?

The recorded antonyms are demote.

Is promote a common word?

promote 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 promote?

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