rifle

1. 1.

   a shoulder firearm with a long barrel and a rifled bore

   “he lifted the rifle to his shoulder and fired”

   Broaderfirearm

   NarrowercarbineGarand riflesniper rifleWinchester

   Partsboltpump actionrifle butt

Other forms of rifle

plural

rifles·

past tense

rifled·

present participle

rifling·

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 rifle

What does rifle mean?

rifle means "steal goods; take as spoils". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in rifle?

rifle has 2 syllables: ri-fle. The stress falls on "ri". In IPA it is /ˈɹaɪfəl/.

What is another word for rifle?

Close synonyms include plunder, despoil, loot, reave, strip. 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 rifle a common word?

rifle is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.