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- [an-nah-buh]
- /ænˈnɑ bə/
- /bəʊn/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [an-nah-buh]
- /ænˈnɑ bə/
Definitions of bone word
- variable noun bone Your bones are the hard parts inside your body which together form your skeleton. 3
- verb bone If you bone a piece of meat or fish, you remove the bones from it before cooking it. 3
- adjective bone A bone tool or ornament is made of bone. 3
- noun bone any of the various structures that make up the skeleton in most vertebrates 3
- noun bone the porous rigid tissue of which these parts are made, consisting of a matrix of collagen and inorganic salts, esp calcium phosphate, interspersed with canals and small holes 3
- noun bone something consisting of bone or a bonelike substance 3
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Origin of bone
First appearance:
before 900 One of the 4% oldest English words
before 900; Middle English bo(o)n, Old English bān; cognate with Old Frisian, Old Saxon bēn, Dutch been bone, Old Norse bein bone, leg, German Bein leg (-bein bone, in compounds); < Germanic *bainan (neuter), probably orig. past participle (compare Old Irish benaid (he) hews), meaning “lopped off,” from butchering of animals; orig. in phrase *bainan astan lopped-off bone or branch (hence, “leg,” as a branch of the body); replacing *astan bone < Indo-European *Host- (> Latin os(s), Albanian asht, Avestan ast-, Hittite hast-ai), which fell together in Gmc with *astaz branch (> German Ast) < Indo-European *osdos (> Greek ózos, Armenian ost)
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Parts of speech for Bone
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pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
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bone popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 73% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
bone usage trend in Literature
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