Meaning

9 senses

  1. The front part of the neck.

    The wild pitch bounced and hit the catcher in the throat.

    Kehle

    го́рлоgórlo, гло́ткаglótka

    го́рлоhórlo

    the passage to the stomach and lungs; in the front part of the neck below the chin and above the collarbone

  2. The gullet or windpipe.

    As I swallowed I felt something strange in my throat.

    Kehle, Rachen

    го́рлоgórlo

  3. A narrow opening in a vessel.

    The water leaked out from the throat of the bottle.

    Hals, Flaschenhals

    го́рлоgórlo, го́рлышкоgórlyško

    an opening in the vamp of a shoe at the instep

  4. The part of a chimney between the gathering, or portion of the funnel which contracts in ascending, and the flue.

  5. The upper fore corner of a boom-and-gaff sail, or of a staysail.

  6. That end of a gaff which is next to the mast.

  7. The angle where the arm of an anchor is joined to the shank.

  8. The inside of a timber knee.

  9. The orifice of a tubular organ; the outer end of the tube of a monopetalous corolla; the faux, or fauces.

Examples

364 sentences

  1. My throat hurts when I swallow.

    Коли я ковтаю, в мене болить горло. — deniko

    ruУ меня болит горло, когда я глотаю. — marafon

    deMir tut beim Schlucken der Hals weh. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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  2. I don't have a sore throat.

    У мене не болить горло. — deniko

    ruУ меня не болит горло. — marafon

    deIch habe keine Halsschmerzen. — wolfgangth

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  3. I still have a sore throat.

    У мене досі запалене горло. — Ahha

    deIch habe immer noch Halsschmerzen. — wolfgangth

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  4. I've got a frog in my throat.

    Я захрип. — deniko

    ruЯ охрип. — sharptoothed

    deIch habe einen Frosch im Hals. — MUIRIEL

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  5. I have a sore throat and a fever.

    У мене болить горло і підвищена температура. — Ahha

    ruУ меня температура, и горло болит. — Wezel

    deIch habe Halsschmerzen und Fieber. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
front part of the neck:
Русский
By meaning 2
front part of the neck:
narrow opening in a vessel:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
front part of the neck:
gullet or windpipe:
narrow opening in a vessel:

Origin

From Middle English throte, from Old English þrote, þrota, þrotu (“throat”), from Proto-We

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.

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Forms

plural: throats
Singularthroat
Pluralthroats

regular

Synonyms

8 synonyms
narrow opening in a vessel:neckA1bottleneck
gullet:gulletoesophagusesophagus
windpipe:tracheawindpipe
Close in meaning
  • the passage to the stomach and lungs; in the front part of the neck below the chin and above the collarbone:pharynx

Antonyms

1 antonyms
end of a gaff next to the mast:peakB2

Word family

52 related words
Relatedthrottlethroaty
Derivedbarbthroatblack-throatblackthroatbluethroatclergyman's throatcutthroatcut-throat razordapple-throatdeep throatfirethroatforethroatfull-throatedone-throatred-throatredthroatrubythroatsore throatspot-throatstarthroatstation throatstipplethroatstrep throattear-throatthroatache

Lessons for this word

1 lessons

Collocations

5 patterns
  • a sore throat
  • sore throat
  • cleared his throat
  • sore throat and
  • in my throat

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
thrillB2thrillerB1thrivethrobthroe
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