volunteer

1. 1.

   tell voluntarily

   “He volunteered the information”

   Broaderinform
2. 2.

   agree freely

   “She volunteered to drive the old lady home”

   “I offered to help with the dishes but the hostess would not hear of it”

   Synonymsoffer

   Broaderact
3. 3.

   do volunteer work

   Broaderwork

1. 1.

   without payment

   “the soup kitchen was run primarily by unpaid helpers”

   “a volunteer fire department”

   Synonymsunpaid

   Similarvoluntary

Other forms of volunteer

plural

volunteers·

past tense

volunteered·

present participle

volunteering·

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 volunteer

What does volunteer mean?

volunteer means "(military) a person who freely enlists for service". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in volunteer?

volunteer has 3 syllables: vo-lun-teer. The stress falls on "teer". In IPA it is /ˌvɑlənˈtɪɹ/.

What is another word for volunteer?

Close synonyms include military volunteer, voluntary, unpaid worker, Tennessean, offer. 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.

What is the opposite of volunteer?

The recorded antonyms are draftee.

Is volunteer a common word?

volunteer is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. 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 volunteer?

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