throat
The front part of the neck.
Example
“The wild pitch bounced and hit the catcher in the throat.”
Other meanings
The gullet or windpipe.
“As I swallowed I felt something strange in my throat.”
A narrow opening in a vessel.
“The water leaked out from the throat of the bottle.”
Synonyms
- pharynx
A kind of
- tubular cavity
Example sentences
Word history
From Old English "þrote".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “throat” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.