shoulder

1. 1.

   lift onto one's shoulders

   Broaderraise
2. 2.

   push with the shoulders

   “He shouldered his way into the crowd”

   Broaderthrust
3. 3.

   carry a burden, either real or metaphoric

   “shoulder the burden”

   Broadertransport

Other forms of shoulder

plural

shoulders·

past tense

shoulderred·

present participle

shoulderring·

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 shoulder

What does shoulder mean?

shoulder means "the part of the body between the neck and the upper arm". That is the primary sense; the word has 8 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in shoulder?

shoulder has 2 syllables: shoul-der. The stress falls on "shoul". In IPA it is /ˈʃoʊldɚ/.

What is another word for shoulder?

Close synonyms include shoulder joint, articulatio humeri, berm. 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 shoulder a common word?

shoulder 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.