teardrop

1. 1.

   anything shaped like a falling drop (as a pendant gem on an earring)

   Broaderdrop
2. 2.

   a drop of the clear salty saline solution secreted by the lacrimal glands

   “his story brought tears to her eyes”

   Synonymstear

   Broaderdrop

   Part oflacrimal secretion

Other forms of teardrop

plural

teardrops·

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 teardrop

What does teardrop mean?

teardrop means "anything shaped like a falling drop (as a pendant gem on an earring)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in teardrop?

teardrop has 3 syllables: te-ar-drop. The stress falls on "te".

What is another word for teardrop?

Close synonyms include tear. 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 teardrop a common word?

teardrop 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.