English Explanatory Dictionary

throat

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The front part of the neck.
  2. The gullet or windpipe.
  3. A narrow opening in a vessel.
  4. Short for station throat
  5. The part of a chimney between the gathering, or portion of the funnel which contracts in ascending, and the flue.
  6. The upper fore corner of a boom-and-gaff sail, or of a staysail.
  7. That end of a gaff which is next to the mast.
  8. The angle where the arm of an anchor is joined to the shank.
  9. The inside of a timber knee.
  10. The orifice of a tubular organ; the outer end of the tube of a monopetalous corolla; the faux, or fauces.
verb
  1. To utter in or with the throat.
  2. To take into the throat. (Compare deepthroat.)
  3. To mow (beans, etc.) in a direction against their bending.

Pronunciation

/ˈθɹəʊt/ /ˈθɹoʊt/ en-us-throat.ogg

Word forms

throat throats throate throte throating throated

Etymology

From Middle English throte, from Old English þrote, þrota, þrotu (“throat”), from Proto-West Germanic *þrotu, from Proto-Germanic *þrutō (“throat”), from Proto-Indo-European *trud- (“to swell, become stiff”). Cognate with Dutch strot (“throat”), German Drossel (“throttle, gorge of game (wild animals)”), Faroese troti (“swelling”), Icelandic þroti (“swelling”), Norwegian trut (“mouth”), Swedish trut.

Synonyms

esophagus gullet oesophagus trachea windpipe neck bottleneck

Antonyms

peak

Related words

throttle

Derived words

at someone's throat barbthroat black-throat blackthroat bluethroat bone in the throat bring a lump to someone's throat clear one's throat clergyman's sore throat clergyman's throat climb down someone's throat cut one's own throat cut someone's throat cut throat cutthroat cut-throat cut-throat razor dapple-throat deep throat deep-throat deepthroat firethroat force down someone's throat force something down someone's throat forethroat frog in one's throat full-throated give one the lie in one's throat give someone the lie in their throat go down the wrong throat go for the throat grab life by the throat have a frog in one's throat jump down someone's throat leap down someone's throat lie in one's throat lump in one's throat lump to one's throat one's belly thinks one's throat has been cut one's heart in one's throat one's stomach thinks one's throat has been cut one-throat one throat to choke ram something down someone's throat red-throat redthroat rubythroat shove something down someone's throat slit someone's throat sore throat spot-throat starthroat station throat stick in one's throat stick in someone's throat stipplethroat strep throat tear-throat throatache throatal
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