smoke

1. 1.

   inhale and exhale smoke from cigarettes, cigars, pipes

   “We never smoked marijuana”

   “Do you smoke?”

   Broaderuse

   Narrowerchain-smokepuffinhale
2. 2.

   emit a cloud of fine particles

   “The chimney was fuming”

   Synonymsfume

   Broaderemit

Other forms of smoke

plural

smokes·

past tense

smoked·

present participle

smoking·

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 smoke

What does smoke mean?

smoke means "a cloud of fine particles suspended in a gas". That is the primary sense; the word has 10 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in smoke?

smoke has 1 syllable: smoke. In IPA it is /ˈsmoʊk/.

What is another word for smoke?

Close synonyms include fume, smoking, roll of tobacco, pot, grass. 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 smoke a common word?

smoke 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.