yarn

1. 1.

   tell or spin a yarn

   Broadertell

Other forms of yarn

plural

yarns·

past tense

yarned·

present participle

yarning·

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 yarn

What does yarn mean?

yarn means "the act of giving an account describing incidents or a course of events". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in yarn?

yarn has 1 syllable: yarn. In IPA it is /ˈjɑɹn/.

What is another word for yarn?

Close synonyms include narration, recital, thread. 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 yarn a common word?

yarn 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.