Meaning

5 senses
  1. The crease or depression of the human body at the junction of the trunk and the thigh, together with the surrounding region.

    Leiste

    пахpax

    пахви́наpaxvýna

    the crease at the junction of the inner part of the thigh with the trunk together with the adjacent region and often including the external genitals

  2. The area adjoining this fold or depression.

    He pulled a muscle in his groin.

  3. The projecting solid angle formed by the meeting of two vaults

    a curved edge formed by two intersecting vaults

  4. The surface formed by two such vaults.

  5. (euphemistic)The genitals.

    He got kicked in the groin and was writhing in pain.

Examples

10 sentences
  1. Mary kicked Tom in the groin.

    ruМэри пнула Тома в пах. — sharptoothed

    deMary trat Tom in den Schritt. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  2. Tom pulled his groin playing soccer.

  3. Tom sustained a kick to the groin.

  4. Getting kicked in the groin is painful.

    deEin Tritt in den Schritt tut weh. — Yorwba · CC BY 2.0 FR

  5. I have an itch in my groin area.

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
long narrow depression of the human body that separates the trunk from the legs:
Русский
By meaning 1
long narrow depression of the human body that separates the trunk from the legs:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
long narrow depression of the human body that separates the trunk from the legs:

Forms

plural: groins
Singulargroin
Pluralgroins

regular

Synonyms

7 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • the crease at the junction of the inner part of the thigh with the trunk together with the adjacent region and often including the external genitals:inguen
  • a protective structure of stone or concrete; extends from shore into the water to prevent a beach from washing away:breakwatergroynemole-nbulwarkseawalljetty

Word family

9 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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