EGAVE

belly

About 6.29 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun The abdomen (especially a fat one).
    You've grown a belly over Christmas! Time to join the gym again.
  2. noun stomach (an organ in animals that stores food in the process of digestion)
    My belly was full of wine.
  3. noun uterus (a reproductive organ of therian mammals in which the young are conceived and develop until birth)
  4. noun The lower fuselage of an airplane.
  5. noun The part of anything which resembles (either closely or abstractly) the human belly in protuberance or in concavity; often, the fundus (innermost part).
    the belly of a flask, muscle, violin, sail, or ship
  6. noun The main curved portion of a knife blade.
  7. noun The hollow part of a curved or bent timber, the convex part of which is the back.
  8. verb To position one’s belly; to move on one’s belly.

Similar words

abdomen belly out paunch stomach venter hungry chow breast billy bump

Often followed by

of and is with button to was in up

Word family

bellied bellies belly of the beast bellying the belly of the beast

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