report

1. 1.

   to give an account or representation of in words

   “Discreet Italian police described it in a manner typically continental”

   Synonymsdescribeaccount

   Broaderinform
2. 2.

   announce as the result of an investigation or experience or finding

   “Dozens of incidents of wife beatings are reported daily in this city”

   “The team reported significant advances in their research”

   Broaderannounce
3. 3.

   announce one's presence

   “I report to work every day at 9 o'clock”

   Broaderannounce

   Narrowercheck incheck outclock out
4. 4.

   make known to the authorities

   “One student reported the other to the principal”

   Broaderinform
5. 5.

   be responsible for reporting the details of, as in journalism

   “Snow reported on China in the 1950's”

   “The cub reporter covered New York City”

   Synonymscover

   Broaderinform
6. 6.

   complain about; make a charge against

   “I reported her to the supervisor”

   Broadercomplain

Other forms of report

plural

reports·

past tense

reported·

present participle

reporting·

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 report

What does report mean?

report means "a written document describing the findings of some individual or group". That is the primary sense; the word has 13 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in report?

report has 2 syllables: re-port. The stress falls on "port". In IPA it is /ɹiˈpɔɹt/.

What is another word for report?

Close synonyms include study, written report, account, news report, story. 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 report a common word?

report 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 report?

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