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say it: rahk
rock is a noun and verb meaning "a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter". It is pronounced /ˈɹɑk/ — rahk. It carries 9 recorded senses.
a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter
“he threw a rock at me”
material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust
“that mountain is solid rock”
“stone is abundant in New England and there are many quarries”
United States gynecologist and devout Catholic who conducted the first clinical trials of the oral contraceptive pill (1890-1984)
(figurative) someone who is strong and stable and dependable
“he was her rock during the crisis”
“Thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church”
hard bright-colored stick candy (typically flavored with peppermint)
a genre of popular music originating in the 1950s; a blend of black rhythm-and-blues with white country-and-western
“rock is a generic term for the range of styles that evolved out of rock'n'roll.”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for rock come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.