reed

/ɹˈid/ · 1 syllable

Meaning

noun

1. tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites
2. United States journalist who reported on the October Revolution from Petrograd in 1917; founded the Communist Labor Party in America in 1919; is buried in the Kremlin in Moscow (1887-1920)
3. United States physician who proved that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes (1851-1902)
4. a vibrator consisting of a thin strip of stiff material that vibrates to produce a tone when air streams over it
   “the clarinetist fitted a new reed onto his mouthpiece”
5. a musical instrument that sounds by means of a vibrating reed

Synonyms for reed

• John Reed
• Walter Reed
• vibrating reed
• beating-reed instrument
• reed instrument

Words that rhyme with reed

• seed
• feed
• speed
• need
• bead
• breed
• stampede
• bleed
• precede
• proceed
• concede
• plead
• weed
• accede
• exceed
• mead
• recede
• screed
• swede
• cede
• creed
• deed
• fireweed
• greed
• heed
• impede
• indeed
• keyed
• knead
• milkweed