ream

1. 1.

   squeeze the juice out (of a fruit) with a reamer

   “ream oranges”

   Broaderpress out
2. 2.

   remove by making a hole or by boring

   “the dentist reamed out the debris in the course of the root canal treatment”

   Broaderremove
3. 3.

   enlarge with a reamer

   “ream a hole”

   Broaderenlarge

1. 1.

   a large quantity of written matter

   “he wrote reams and reams”

   Broaderlarge indefinite quantity
2. 2.

   a quantity of paper; 480 or 500 sheets; one ream equals 20 quires

   Broaderdefinite quantity

   Partsquire

Other forms of ream

plural

reams·

past tense

reamed·

present participle

reaming·

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 ream

What does ream mean?

ream means "squeeze the juice out (of a fruit) with a reamer". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ream?

ream has 1 syllable: ream. In IPA it is /ˈɹim/.

Is ream a common word?

ream is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. 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 ream?

1 word rhymes with ream. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.