queue

1. 1.

   form a queue, form a line, stand in line

   “Customers lined up in front of the store”

   Synonymsline upqueue up

   Broaderstand

Other forms of queue

plural

queues·

past tense

queued·

present participle

queuing·

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 queue

What does queue mean?

queue means "a line of people or vehicles waiting for something". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in queue?

queue has 1 syllable: queue. In IPA it is /ˈkju/.

What is another word for queue?

Close synonyms include waiting line, line up, queue up. 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 queue a common word?

queue 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 queue?

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