tarmac

1. 1.

   surface with macadam

   “macadam the road”

   Synonymsmacadamizemacadamise

   Broadercoat

Other forms of tarmac

plural

tarmacs·

past tense

tarmaced·

present participle

tarmacing·

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 tarmac

What does tarmac mean?

tarmac means "a paving material of tar and broken stone; mixed in a factory and shaped during paving". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in tarmac?

tarmac has 2 syllables: tar-mac. The stress falls on "tar". In IPA it is /ˈtɑɹˌmæk/.

What is another word for tarmac?

Close synonyms include tarmacadam, tarmacadam, macadam, macadamize, macadamise. 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 tarmac a common word?

tarmac 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 tarmac?

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