bile
/baɪl/
bile noun: a bitter brownish-yellow or greenish-yellow secretion produced by the liver, stored in the gall bladder, and discharged into the duodenum where it aids the process of digestion. Also the pronunciation spelling of boil.
Noun (1)
bile (usually uncountable, plural biles)
- A bitter brownish-yellow or greenish-yellow secretion produced by the liver, stored in the gall bladder, and discharged into the duodenum where it aids the process of digestion.
- Bitterness of temper; ill humour; irascibility.
- Either of two of the four humours, black bile or yellow bile, in ancient and medieval physiology.
- I shall tire of my Journal if it is to contain nothing but biles and plasters and unguents.1890, Walter Scott, The Journal of Sir Walter Scott
- He spake out of the Pythonesse, Act. 16. 17. brought downe fire from heauen, and consumed Iobs sheepe 7000. and his seruants, raised a storme, strooke the house wherein his sonnes and daughters feasted with their elder brother, smote the foure corners of it, with the ruine whereof they all were...1616, Alexander Roberts, A Treatise of Witchcraft
Noun (2)
bile (plural biles)
- A boil (kind of swelling).
Proper noun capitalized: Bile
Bile
Also used as
bile is also the pronunciation spelling of boil.
bile meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
bile in Hindi
- secretion produced by the liver
- पित्त pitt
bile in Tamil
- secretion produced by the liver
- பித்தநீர் pittanīr, பிச்சு piccu
bile in Marathi
- पित्त
bile in Urdu
- secretion produced by the liver
- پت
More languagesFewer languages
- bile in Bengali
- পিত্ত
- bile in Telugu
- పైత్యరసము paityarasamu
- bile in Malayalam
- പിത്തം pittaṁ
- bile in Odia
- ପିତ୍ତ, ପିତ୍ତରସ
- bile in Sanskrit
- अग्नि agni, पित्त pitta
- bile in Assamese
- পিত pit
- bile in Tagalog
- apdo
- bile in Arabic
- صَفْرَاء ṣafrāʔ
- bile in Malay
- hempedu
- bile in Indonesian
- empedu
- bile in Persian
- زرداب zardâb, زهره zahre, صفرا safrâ, گش زرد goš-e zard
- bile in Thai
- น้ำดี náam-dii
- bile in Vietnamese
- mật
- bile in Myanmar
- သည်းခြေ sany:hkre
- Dzongkha
- མཁྲིས་པ mkhris pa
Examples of bile in a sentence
- Extrahepatic cholangiocarcinomas are further classified as either hilar or distal bile duct cholangiocarcinomas.
- I try to scream but my throat merely coughs up bile.
- Don't bile fast but jes' let yo' pot simper along slowsome.
Synonyms of bile
Forms of bile
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | biles |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | biles |
| present participle | biling |
| present participle | bileing |
| past participle | biled |
| past | biled |
Origin of bile
From Middle French bile, from Latin bīlis (“bile”). Partially displaced native English gall (“bile”), from Middle English galle, from Old English galla, ġealla (“gall, bile”).
Obsolete form of boil. Akin to Dutch buil and German Beule, all from Proto-Germanic *būlǭ.
Words formed from bile
Phrases with bile
Words that rhyme with bile
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- gentile
- kyle
- reptile
- sile
- smile
- Lyle
- tile
- while
- beguile
- Nile
- spile
- argyll
- awhile
- enisle
- guile
- gyle
- I'll
- last mile
- nubile
- resile
- restyle
- rile
- senile
- stile
- vile
- autogynephile
- bewile
- chile
- chyle
- Cnile
- District of Argyle
- heil
- ile
- interfile
- isle
- Japanophile
- Kabyle
- kile
- like it's going out of style
- Persophile
- redial
- refile
- revile
- Styal
- thyle
- tickler file
- wile
- worthwhile
Questions about bile
- What does bile mean?
- Bile means a bitter brownish-yellow or greenish-yellow secretion produced by the liver, stored in the gall bladder, and discharged into the duodenum where it aids the process of digestion.
- What is bile in Hindi?
- Bile in Hindi is पित्त (pitt). See Bile meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is bile?
- Bile can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce bile?
- Bile is pronounced /baɪl/.
- What is the plural of bile?
- The plural of bile is biles.
Words near bile in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: bile (page history and authors); Bile (page history and authors); bile (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bile (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bile (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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