Throat Meaning
/ˈθɹəʊt/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounThe front part of the neck.
nounThe gullet or windpipe.
Sentence Examples
I've got a frog in my throat.
I got a fish bone stuck in my throat.
Symptoms include a headache and sore throat.
Synonyms & Antonyms
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The singer drank warm tea to soothe her sore ____ before the big concert.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
He has a very sore ____ and he finds it difficult to swallow or talk clearly today, so he should see a doctor today.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English throte, from Old English þrote, þrota, þrotu (“throat”), from Proto-West Germanic *þrotu, from Proto-Germanic *þrutō (“throat”), from Proto-Indo-European *trud- (“to swell, become stiff”). Cognate with Dutch strot (“throat”), German Drossel (“throttle, gorge of game (wild animals)”), Faroese troti (“swelling”), Icelandic þroti (“swelling”), Norwegian trut (“mouth”), Swedish trut.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes.[…]She put back a truant curl from her forehead where it had sought egress to the world, and looked him full in the face now, drawing a deep breath which caused the round of her bosom to lift the lace at her throat."
— 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter 1, in The Purchase Price:
"KANG: When I take this ship, I'll have Kirk's head stuffed and hung on his cabin wall. // MARA: They will kill us before we can act. // KANG: No, they wish to question us, learn our strength, our plans. They never will. // MARA: We are forty against four hundred. // KLINGON: Four thousand throats may be cut in one night by a running man. // KANG: Patience. Vigilance. They will make a mistake. Capture of the Enterprise will give us knowledge to end this war quickly."
— 1969, Jerome Bixby, Star Trek episode “Day of the Dove”, Culver City, Calif.: Desilu Studios; distributed by Paramount Television, published 1969:
"The tale is bookended by battles – faces meatily pummelled, bones crunchily broken and throats spurtingly sliced as offstage conflicts are placed centre-screen."
— 2015 October 4, Mark Kermode, “Macbeth review – a spittle-flecked Shakespearean war film”, in The Observer:
"By the throat of a Chimney, I mean the lower extremity of its canal, where it unites with the upper part of its open Fire-place."
— 1796, Benjamin Count of Rumford, “Of Chimney Fire-places”, in Essays, Political, Economical and Philosophical, page 332:
"This course of bricks will be upon a level for instance, higher than this part, otherwise the with the top of the door-way left for the chimney throat of the chimney will not be properly form."
— 1816, Encyclopaedia Perthensis:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The singer drank warm tea to soothe her sore ____ before the big concert.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
He has a very sore ____ and he finds it difficult to swallow or talk clearly today, so he should see a doctor today.