kidney

CEFRB2

/ˈkɪdni/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    One of two organs that remove waste from the blood.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    Constitution, temperament, nature, type, character, disposition. (usually used of people)

Examples

  • If he donates a kidney, he can survive with the other one.

  • Is she passing kidney stones in her urine?

At a glance

Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5
Synonyms
3

Also pronounced

  • [ˈkɪdnɪi̯]

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. This organ (of an animal) cooked as food.

  2. An organ in the body that filters the blood, producing urine.

  3. A waiter.

More examples

In context

  • I have kidney trouble.

  • 30th June, 1788, Robert Burns, letter to Mr Robert Ainslie Your poets, spendthrifts, and other fools of that kidney, pretend, forsooth, to crack their jokes on prudence.

  • The liver and the kidneys of animals have long been gastronomically popular for their aphrodisiac properties.

Synonyms

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Origin

noun

From Middle English kideney, kydeney, alteration of earlier kidenere (“kidney”) after ey (“egg”), of obscure origin and formation. Probably a compound consisting of Middle English *kidde (“sack”) + Middle English nere (“kidney”). The first element would be from Old English *cydde (“sack, scrotum”), from Proto-Germanic *kuddijā (“sack”), as the terms for testicle and kidney were often interchangeable in Germanic (compare Old High German nioro (“kidney", also "testicle”), Old Swedish vig-niauri (“testicle”)); the second is from Old English *nēora or Middle Low German nêre (“kidney”), from Proto-West Germanic *neurō, from Proto-Germanic *neurô (“kidney”), from Proto-Indo-European *negʷʰr- (“ki...