detectives

Meaning of detectives

plural noun
  1. a person, especially a police officer, whose occupation is to investigate and solve crimes.
    detectives are anxious to interview anyone who saw the car

mid 19th century: from detect. The noun was originally short for detective policeman, from an adjectival use of the word in the sense ‘serving to detect’.

Information about detectives

Hyphenation of detectives

de-tec-tives

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
  • detectives is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

detectives synonyms

Meaning a person who carries out a formal inquiry or investigation:

investigator

Meaning a secret agent or private detective:

operative

Meaning a person who investigates crimes; a detective:

sleuth

Meaning a device for lifting heavy objects, especially one for raising the axle of a motor vehicle off the ground so that a wheel can be changed or the underside inspected:

jack

Meaning a furtive investigation:

snoop

Meaning a person who peeps at someone or something, especially in a voyeuristic way:

peeper

Meaning a private detective:

shamus

Meaning a detective:

gumshoe, tec, hawkshaw

Meaning a man's penis:

dick

Meaning a score of one stroke over par at a hole:

bogey

Meaning a person who investigates mysteries or shows great perceptiveness:

sherlock

Words that rhyme with detectives

Ives, Gonaives, glaives, naives, waives, cives, elecives, Dives, Maldives, dives, endives, gerundives, khedives, maldives, nosedives, skydives, updives, apperceives, conceives, deceives, misconceives, misperceives, neives, perceives, preconceives, receives, reconceives, reives, undeceives, fives, fortyfives, spoilfives, Argives, forgives, gives, misgives, ogives, outgives, overgives, regives, archives, beehives, chives, hives, shives, superhives, unhives, Iives, jives, skives

Are you looking more rhymes for detectives? Try our rhymes search engine.