umpire

1. 1.

   be a referee or umpire in a sports competition

   Synonymsreferee

   Broaderjudge

   sport

Other forms of umpire

plural

umpires·

past tense

umpired·

present participle

umpiring·

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 umpire

What does umpire mean?

umpire means "an official at a baseball game". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in umpire?

umpire has 3 syllables, though it cannot be divided in writing — the spelling has fewer vowels than the word has beats. In IPA it is /ˈʌmˌpaɪɚ/.

What is another word for umpire?

Close synonyms include ump, arbiter, arbitrator, referee. 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 umpire a common word?

umpire 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 umpire?

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