radio

1. 1.

   transmit messages via radio waves

   “he radioed for help”

   Broadercommunicate

1. 1.

   indicating radiation or radioactivity

   “radiochemistry”

   combining form

Other forms of radio

plural

radios·

past tense

radioed·

present participle

radioing·

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 radio

What does radio mean?

radio means "medium for communication". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in radio?

radio has 3 syllables: ra-di-o. The stress falls on "ra". In IPA it is /ˈɹeɪdiˌoʊ/.

What is another word for radio?

Close synonyms include radiocommunication, wireless, radio receiver, receiving set, radio set. 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 radio a common word?

radio is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. 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 radio?

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