serenade

Other forms of serenade

plural

serenades·

past tense

serenaded·

present participle

serenading·

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 serenade

What does serenade mean?

serenade means "a musical composition in several movements; has no fixed form". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in serenade?

serenade has 3 syllables: ser-e-nade. The stress falls on "nade". In IPA it is /ˌsɛɹəˈneɪd/.

What is another word for serenade?

Close synonyms include divertimento. 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 serenade a common word?

serenade is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. 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 serenade?

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