What does "throat" mean?
The front part of the neck.
Throat
/ˈθɹəʊt/ noun, verb, slang
noun, verb, slang ·Common ·High school level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: The front part of the neck.
- Grammar: throat is listed as noun, verb, slang.
- Nearest alternatives: pharynx, bottleneck, bottleneck, canal.
- Useful contrasts: peak.
- Usage evidence: I got a fish bone stuck in my throat.
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 The front part of the neck.
"The wild pitch bounced and hit the catcher in the throat."
- 2 the part of an animal's body that corresponds to a person's throat wordnet
- 3 The gullet or windpipe.
"As I swallowed I felt something strange in my throat."
- 4 a passage resembling a throat in shape or function wordnet
- 5 A narrow opening in a vessel.
"The water leaked out from the throat of the bottle."
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- 6 an opening in the vamp of a shoe at the instep wordnet
- 7 Short for station throat abbreviation, alt-of
- 8 the passage to the stomach and lungs; in the front part of the neck below the chin and above the collarbone wordnet
- 9 The part of a chimney between the gathering, or portion of the funnel which contracts in ascending, and the flue.
"By the throat of a Chimney, I mean the lower extremity of its canal, where it unites with the upper part of its open Fire-place."
- 10 The upper fore corner of a boom-and-gaff sail, or of a staysail.
- 11 That end of a gaff which is next to the mast.
- 12 The angle where the arm of an anchor is joined to the shank.
"The shoe iron must then become a mere loose piece of iron, and be found, on the heaving up of the anchor, to have lain on the surface of the soil between it and immediately under the throat of the anchor"
- 13 The inside of a timber knee.
- 14 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. uncommon
"He beat about and pecked the net until his mate was liberated, and, throating a song of gratitude, the bird he freed flew to the sky."
- 2 To take into the throat. (Compare deepthroat.) informal
"The Roman began to throat his rigid flagpole of a mancock, making groaning noises."
- 3 To mow (beans, etc.) in a direction against their bending. UK, dialectal, obsolete
Antonyms
Example
"I got a fish bone stuck in my throat."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "throat"?
Common synonyms include: pharynx, bottleneck, bottleneck, canal, channel, constriction.
How do you use "throat" in a sentence?
I got a fish bone stuck in my throat.
How do you pronounce "throat"?
Pronounced /ˈθɹəʊt/.
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.