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- [bohn]
- /boʊn/
- /bəʊn/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [bohn]
- /boʊn/
Definitions of bones word
- noun plural bones the human skeleton or body 3
- noun bones a seaport in NE Algeria: site of Hippo Regius. 1
- verb with object bones to remove the bones from: to bone a turkey. 1
- verb with object bones to put whalebone or another stiffener into (clothing). 1
- verb with object bones Agriculture. to put bone meal into (feed, fertilizer, etc.). 1
- adverb bones completely; absolutely: bone tired. 1
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Origin of bones
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 Bones
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
bones popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 98% 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".
bones usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for bones
noun bones
- body — Your body is all your physical parts, including your head, arms, and legs.
- corpse — A corpse is a dead body, especially the body of a human being.
- corpus delicti — the body of facts that constitute an offence
- deceaseds — no longer living; dead.
- dice — A dice is a small cube which has between one and six spots or numbers on its sides, and which is used in games to provide random numbers. In old-fashioned English, 'dice' was used only as a plural form, and the singular was die, but now 'dice' is used as both the singular and the plural form.
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