sell

1. 1.

   the activity of persuading someone to buy

   “it was a hard sell”

   Broadersale

Other forms of sell

plural

sells·

past tense or participle

sold

present participle

selling·

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 sell

What does sell mean?

sell means "exchange or deliver for money or its equivalent". That is the primary sense; the word has 9 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sell?

sell has 1 syllable: sell. In IPA it is /ˈsɛl/.

What is another word for sell?

Close synonyms include deal, trade, betray. 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.

What is the opposite of sell?

The recorded antonyms are buy.

Is sell a common word?

sell 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 sell?

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