spear

1. 1.

   pierce with a spear

   “spear fish”

   Broadertransfix
2. 2.

   thrust up like a spear

   “The branch speared up into the air”

   Synonymsspear up

   Broaderstick out

Other forms of spear

plural

spears·

past tense

speared·

present participle

spearing·

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 spear

What does spear mean?

spear means "a long pointed rod used as a tool or weapon". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in spear?

spear has 1 syllable: spear. In IPA it is /ˈspɪɹ/.

What is another word for spear?

Close synonyms include lance, shaft, gig, fizgig, fishgig. 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 spear a common word?

spear 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 spear?

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