snipe

1. 1.

   Old or New World straight-billed game bird of the sandpiper family; of marshy areas; similar to the woodcocks

   Broadershorebird

   Narrowerwhole snipeWilson's snipegreat snipejacksnipedowitcher

   Part ofwisp
2. 2.

   a gunshot from a concealed location

   Broadergunfire

Other forms of snipe

plural

snipes·

past tense

sniped·

present participle

sniping·

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 snipe

What does snipe mean?

snipe means "hunt or shoot snipe". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in snipe?

snipe has 1 syllable: snipe. In IPA it is /ˈsnaɪp/.

What is another word for snipe?

Close synonyms include sharpshoot, attack, round, assail, lash out. 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 snipe a common word?

snipe is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.