skull

CEFRB2

/skˈʌl/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    The bones forming the head.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    The mind or brain.

Examples

  • Closer examination revealed that the skull had been crushed by some heavy blow.

  • The boy fell off the bicycle and fractured his skull.

At a glance

Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5
Synonyms
4

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. These bones as a symbol for death; death's-head.

  2. The main bones of the head considered as a unit; including the cranium, facial bones, and mandible.

  3. A crust formed on the ladle, etc. by the partial cooling of molten metal.

More examples

In context

  • The human skull consists of 23 bones.

  • These fishs, togither with the old Tunies and the young, called Pelamides, enter in great flotes and skulls, into the sea Pontus, for the sweet food that they there find: and every companie of them hath their fever all leaders and captaines; and before them a...

  • She nearly skulled the next drink and, despite feeling a little woozy, she felt a lot better.

Synonyms

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The archaeologist held the ancient human blank in his hands, noting the empty eye sockets.

Practise this properly in the app, where the word comes back before you forget it.

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Origin

noun

From Middle English sculle, scolle (also schulle, scholle), probably from a dialectal form of Old Norse skalli (“bald head, skull”), itself probably related to Old English sċealu (“husk”), to Proto-Norse *ᛋᚲᚨᛚᛟ (*skalo), from Proto-Germanic *skallô; compare Finnish skallo. Compare Scots scull, Danish skal (“skull”) and skalle (“bald head, skull”), Norwegian skalle, Swedish skalle and especially dialectal Swedish skulle. Related to Old Norse skoltr (“brow”), skolptr (“muzzle, snout”), akin to Icelandic skoltur (“jaw”), dialectal Swedish skult, skulle (“dome, crown of the head, skull”), Norwegian Nynorsk skult, skolt (“cranium, head (of a hammer); crag; hub”), Middle Dutch scolle, scholle, Mi...