timothy

Other forms of timothy

plural

timothies·

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 timothy

What does timothy mean?

timothy means "grass with long cylindrical spikes grown in northern United States and Europe for hay". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in timothy?

timothy has 3 syllables: tim-o-thy. The stress falls on "tim". In IPA it is /ˈtɪməθi/.

What is another word for timothy?

Close synonyms include herd's grass, Phleum pratense. 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 timothy a common word?

timothy 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.