spoon

1. 1.

   scoop up or take up with a spoon

   “spoon the sauce over the roast”

   Broaderremove
2. 2.

   snuggle and lie in a position where one person faces the back of the others

   Synonymssmooch

   Broaderneck

Other forms of spoon

plural

spoons·

past tense

spooned·

present participle

spooning·

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 spoon

What does spoon mean?

spoon means "a piece of cutlery with a shallow bowl-shaped container and a handle; used to stir or serve or take up food". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in spoon?

spoon has 1 syllable: spoon. In IPA it is /ˈspun/.

What is another word for spoon?

Close synonyms include spoonful, smooch. 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 spoon a common word?

spoon 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 spoon?

3 words rhyme with spoon. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.