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jell

/d͡ʒɛl/

jell noun: synonym of jelly or gel.

Noun

jell (plural jells)

  1. Synonym of jelly or gel.
    Synonyms:
    jelly or gel

Verb

jell (third-person singular simple present jells, present participle jelling, simple past and past participle jelled)

  1. Synonym of gel.
    • Somewhere in there is a terrific story idea; but it never jelled.1985, Larry Niven, Limits, page viii
    • A lot of things are jelling, says Hoffman.2008 December 5, Elizabeth Pennisi, “Hopping to a Better Protein”, in Science, →DOI, →ISSN
    Synonyms:
    gel

jell meaning in Urdu and Bengali

jell in Urdu

جمنا

jell in Bengali

জেলির মতো হওয়া, করা, আকার নেওয়া, দানা বাঁধা

Synonyms of jell

  • jelly or gel
  • gel

Forms of jell

Noun
pluraljells
Verb
third-person singular presentjells
present participlejelling
past participlejelled
pastjelled

Plural of jell: jells

Origin of jell

The verb is a back-formation from jelly. The later noun is from the verb. Reinforced by gel. Compare obsolete geal.

Words formed from jell

Words that rhyme with jell

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Questions about jell

What does jell mean?
Jell means synonym of jelly or gel.
What is jell in Urdu?
Jell in Urdu is جمنا. See Jell meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is jell?
Jell can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce jell?
Jell is pronounced /d͡ʒɛl/.
What is the plural of jell?
The plural of jell is jells.

Words near jell in the dictionary

  1. jeliya
  2. jelk
  3. jelked
  4. jelking
  5. jelks
  6. jell
  7. jell out
  8. Jell-O
  9. Jell-O shot
  10. Jell-O shots
  11. jellaba

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Adapted from Wiktionary: jell (page history and authors); jell (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); jell (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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