bone

nounpiece of animate skeleton

Synonyms for bone

noun piece of animate skeleton

Word Origin & History

Old English ban "bone, tusk," from Proto-Germanic *bainam (cf. Old Frisian ben, Old Norse bein, Danish ben, German Bein). No cognates outside Germanic (the common PIE root is *os-; see osseous); the Norse, Dutch, and German cognates also mean "shank of the leg," and this is the main meaning in Modern German, but English never seems to have had this sense.

Example Sentences for bone

The bullets of the posse had neither torn a tendon nor broken a bone.

I don't imagine there's a single one that cares a bone button for me.

The brain is hidden in darkness, sheltered within a box of bone.

"The magic of this bone is a very great magic," Simba was saying.

I had it now, the whole damnable, pitiful story, every fact clear-cut to the bone.

Take six pounds of the lean of fresh beef, cut from the bone.

It was dull; but if I could have it all over again, I'd work my fingers to the bone.

You touch them things ag'in, an' I'll break every bone in your body.

I mind the time when her yellow arms were naught but bone and parchment.

Not so these classmates, who had known each other to the bone.

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