Meaning

11 senses
  1. (uncountable, usually)The soft tissue of the body, especially muscle and fat.

    the soft tissue of the body of a vertebrate: mainly muscle tissue and fat

  2. (uncountable, usually)The skin of a human or animal.

    Haut

    ко́жаkóža

    alternative names for the body of a human being

  3. (broadly, uncountable, usually)Bare arms, bare legs, bare torso.

  4. (uncountable, usually)Animal tissue regarded as food; meat (but sometimes excluding fish).

    Fleisch, Fleisch

    мя́соmjáso, плотьplotʹ, мягкая тканьmjaxkaja tkanʹ

    м'я́соmʺjáso, плотьplotʹ, ті́лоtílo

  5. (uncountable, usually)The human body as a physical entity.

    Fleisch, Leib

    те́лоtélo

    ті́лоtílo

  6. (uncountable, usually)The mortal body of a human being, contrasted with the spirit or soul.

    1929 January, Bassett Morgan (Grace Jones), Bimini, first published in Weird Tales, reprinted 1949, in Avon Fantasy Reader, Issue 10, But death had no gift for me, no power to free me from flesh.

  7. (uncountable, usually)The evil and corrupting principle working in man.

  8. (uncountable, usually)The soft, often edible, parts of fruits or vegetables.

    Fleisch, Fruchtfleisch

    мя́котьmjákotʹ

  9. (uncountable, usually)A yellowish pink color; the color of some Caucasian human skin.

  10. (obsolete, uncountable, usually)Tenderness of feeling; gentleness.

  11. (obsolete, uncountable, usually)Kindred; stock; race.

Examples

122 sentences
  1. I'm only flesh and blood, like everybody else.

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  2. How can you treat your own flesh and blood that way?

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  3. It's just a flesh wound.

    deDas ist nur eine Fleischwunde.

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  4. You're my flesh and blood.

    ruТы моя плоть и кровь.

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  5. I have seen him on TV but not in the flesh.

    Я бачив його по телевізору, але не вживу.

    ruЯ видел его по телевизору, но не вживую.

    deIch habe ihn im Fernsehen gesehen, aber nicht im richtigen Leben.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 2
colour:
body tissue:
Русский
By meaning 5
colour:
skin:
animal tissue as food:
body tissue:
edible part of fruit/vegetable:
Deutsch
By meaning 5
colour:
skin:
animal tissue as food:
human body entity:
edible part of fruit/vegetable:

Origin

From Middle English flesh, flesch, flæsch, from Old English flǣsċ, from Proto-West Germani

From Middle English flesh, flesch, flæsch, from Old English flǣsċ, from Proto-West Germanic *flaiski, from Proto-Germanic *flaiski, from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁ḱ- (“to tear, peel off”).

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Forms

plural: fleshes
Singularflesh

uncountable

Synonyms

14 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

1 related words
Relatedfleshy

See also

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