rerun

1. 1.

   a program that is broadcast again

   “she likes to watch `I love Lucy' reruns”

   Broaderbroadcast

Other forms of rerun

plural

reruns·

past tense or participle

reran

present participle

rerunning

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 rerun

What does rerun mean?

rerun means "broadcast again, as of a film". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in rerun?

rerun has 2 syllables: re-run. The stress falls on "re". In IPA it is /ˈɹiˈɹʌn/.

What is another word for rerun?

Close synonyms include rebroadcast. 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 rerun a common word?

rerun 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 rerun?

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