tar

1. 1.

   coat with tar

   “tar the roof”

   “tar the roads”

   Broadercoat

Other forms of tar

plural

tars·

past tense or participle

tarred

present participle

tarring

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 tar

What does tar mean?

tar means "any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in tar?

tar has 1 syllable: tar. In IPA it is /ˈtɑɹ/.

What is another word for tar?

Close synonyms include pitch, mariner, seaman, Jack-tar, Jack. 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 tar a common word?

tar is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. 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 tar?

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