tree

1. 1.

   a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms

   Broaderwoody plant

   NarroweryellowwoodlancewoodGuinea pepperanise treewinter's barkzebrawoodgranadilla treeacaciacoralwoodalbizzia

   Part offorest

   Partsstumpcrownlimbtrunkburl
2. 2.

   a figure that branches from a single root

   “genealogical tree”

   Synonymstree diagram

   Broaderplane figure

   Narrowercladogramstemma
3. 3.

   English actor and theatrical producer noted for his lavish productions of Shakespeare (1853-1917)

   SynonymsSir Herbert Beerbohm Tree

   Broaderactortheatrical producer

Other forms of tree

plural

trees·

past tense

treed·

present participle

treeing·

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 tree

What does tree mean?

tree means "force a person or an animal into a position from which he cannot escape". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in tree?

tree has 1 syllable: tree. In IPA it is /ˈtɹi/.

What is another word for tree?

Close synonyms include corner, shoetree, tree diagram, Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree. 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 tree a common word?

tree is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. 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 tree?

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