bones
UK/bəʊnz//boʊnz/
bones is the plural of bone.
bones is the third-person singular simple present indicative of bone.
Noun (1)
bones
- A percussive folk musical instrument played as a pair in one hand, often made from bovine ribs.
- Dice for gambling.
- Synonym of fist bump.
- The framework or foundation of something.
- The house don't fall when the bones are good.2019, Maren Morris, The Bones
- “Mom, when you look around the house, what do you see?” “Walls. Just a lot of walls.” “[Scoffs] Walls. What a noob. What do we see, Jeff, you and I?” “When I look at a house, I can see beyond the walls...” “Uh-huh.” “....above the ceiling...” “That's right.” “...and below the floor.” “Bingo.” “I...2019 May 20, Joel Hurwitz, “Lost Boys” (4:36 from the start), in American Dad!, season 16, episode 6, spoken by Jeff Fischer (Jeff Fischer)
Meaning of bone
Noun
bone (countable and uncountable, plural bones)
- A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates.
- Ne take noon hede to brynge togidere þe parties of þe boon þat is to-broken or dislocate, til viij. daies ben goon in þe wyntir, & v. in þe somer; for þanne it schal make quytture, and be sikir from swellynge; & þanne brynge togidere þe brynkis eiþer þe disiuncture after þe techynge þat schal be...a1420, The British Museum Additional MS, 12,056, “Wounds complicated by the Dislocation of a Bone”, in Robert von Fleischhacker, editor, Lanfranc's "Science of cirurgie.", London: K. Paul, Trench...
- Any of the components of an endoskeleton, made of this material.
- No Trophee, Sword, nor Hatchment o're his bones.c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac...
- A bone of a fish; a fishbone.
- A bonefish.
- The reason I rarely fish for Mag Bay bones with a 5-weight or 6-weight is the number of fish that can turn light stuff inside out.2019, Scott Sadil, “Tres Bocas”, in California Fly Fisher
- One of the rigid parts of a corset that forms its frame, the boning, originally made of whalebone.
- One of the fragments of bone held between the fingers of the hand and rattled together to keep time to music.
Proper noun (1) capitalized: Bones
Bones
- plural of Bone
Proper noun (2) capitalized: Bones
Bones (plural Boneses)
- A surname.
Noun (2) capitalized: Bones
Bones
- A surgeon.
- And then the door swung wide upon its hinges, and Bones - our surgeon - Dr. Sawin, outside the service - broke into the room with his favorite greeting: “Hello, inside! Never mind the guard!1893, James A. Frye, Fables of Field and Staff, page 14
Synonyms of bones
Forms of bones
| plural | Boneses |
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Origin of bones
From sawbones.
Words formed from bones
Phrases with bones
- H bones
- Y bones
- bones up
- arm bones
- bones out
- dog bones
- ear bones
- hip bones
- jaw bones
- pin bones
- sit bones
- tau bones
169 more phrasesFewer phrases
- back bones
- bare bones
- bones down
- calf bones
- heel bones
- holy bones
- lazy bones
- long bones
- otic bones
- soup bones
- tail bones
- wing bones
- canon bones
- cheek bones
- cramp bones
- crazy bones
- elbow bones
- funny bones
- God's bones
- hyoid bones
- malar bones
- nasal bones
- pedal bones
- penis bones
- pizza bones
- plate bones
- pubic bones
- Tilly bones
- vomer bones
- bag of bones
- breast bones
- broken bones
- cannon bones
- carpal bones
- coffin bones
- collar bones
- cuboid bones
- dermal bones
- finger bones
- hamate bones
- haunch bones
- huckle bones
- lunate bones
- oracle bones
- penile bones
- pulley bones
- radial bones
- splint bones
- tarsal bones
- to the bones
- tongue bones
- yellow bones
- bags of bones
- bones to pick
- chevron bones
- dentary bones
- devil's bones
- dog and bones
- ethmoid bones
- folding bones
- forearm bones
- frontal bones
- lingual bones
- mastoid bones
- Pile of Bones
- roofing bones
- rostral bones
- stirrup bones
- telling bones
- wishing bones
- Wormian bones
- alveolar bones
- capitate bones
- cuboidal bones
- epipubic bones
- exercise bones
- in one's bones
- incisive bones
- lacrimal bones
- make old bones
- membrane bones
- Napier's bones
- palatine bones
- parietal bones
- pisiform bones
- quadrate bones
- scaphoid bones
- sesamoid bones
- shoulder bones
- skin and bones
- sphenoid bones
- splenial bones
- splinter bones
- temporal bones
- to one's bones
- tympanic bones
- cuneiform bones
- ethmoidal bones
- flesh and bones
- good-luck bones
- lachrymal bones
- marsupial bones
- navicular bones
- occipital bones
- pneumatic bones
- rickle o' bones
- rickle of bones
- semilunar bones
- skull and bones
- squamosal bones
- trapezium bones
- trapezoid bones
- turbinate bones
- zygomatic bones
- cuttlefish bones
- find no bones in
- innominate bones
- made one's bones
- make bones about
- make one's bones
- metacarpal bones
- rattle the bones
- rickles o' bones
- rickles of bones
- St. Hugh's bones
- triquetral bones
- triquetrum bones
- jumps one's bones
- makes one's bones
- meat on the bones
- no bones about it
- ploughshare bones
- rattled the bones
- rattles the bones
- all skin and bones
- flesh on the bones
- jumped one's bones
- making one's bones
- rattling the bones
- bones in the throat
- bones of contention
- jumping one's bones
- made no bones about
- make no bones about
- meat on one's bones
- soaked to the bones
- jump someone's bones
- keep the bones green
- makes no bones about
- jumps someone's bones
- making no bones about
- jumped someone's bones
- medial cuneiform bones
- ain't no bones about it
- jump on someone's bones
- jumping someone's bones
- lateral cuneiform bones
- inferior turbinate bones
- jumps on someone's bones
- not make any bones about
- jumped on someone's bones
- jumping on someone's bones
- intermediate cuneiform bones
- chew the meat and spit out the bones
- sticks and stones may break my bones
- chewed the meat and spat out the bones
- chewed the meat and spit out the bones
- chews the meat and spits out the bones
- chewing the meat and spitting out the bones
Words that rhyme with bones
Questions about bones
- What does bones mean?
- Bones means a percussive folk musical instrument played as a pair in one hand, often made from bovine ribs.
- What is bones the plural of?
- Bones is the plural of bone.
- What part of speech is bones?
- Bones can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce bones?
- Bones is pronounced /bəʊnz/ (UK).
Words near bones in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: bones (page history and authors); Bones (page history and authors); bone (page history and authors). 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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