snake

1. 1.

   move smoothly and sinuously, like a snake

   Broaderglide
2. 2.

   form a snake-like pattern

   “The river snakes through the valley”

   Broaderwind
3. 3.

   move along a winding path

   “The army snaked through the jungle”

   Broaderweave

Other forms of snake

plural

snakes·

past tense

snaked·

present participle

snaking·

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 snake

What does snake mean?

snake means "limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous". That is the primary sense; the word has 9 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in snake?

snake has 1 syllable: snake. In IPA it is /ˈsneɪk/.

What is another word for snake?

Close synonyms include serpent, ophidian, snake in the grass, Snake River, Hydra. 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 snake a common word?

snake 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.

What rhymes with snake?

1 word rhymes with snake. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.