zoom

1. 1.

   a rapid rise

   Synonymsrapid climbrapid growth

   Broaderrise
2. 2.

   the act of rising upward into the air

   Synonymssoar

   Broaderrise

Other forms of zoom

plural

zooms·

past tense

zoomed·

present participle

zooming·

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 zoom

What does zoom mean?

zoom means "move along very quickly". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in zoom?

zoom has 1 syllable: zoom. In IPA it is /ˈzum/.

What is another word for zoom?

Close synonyms include zoom along, whizz, whizz along, soar, soar up. 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 zoom a common word?

zoom 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 zoom?

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