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cincture

/ˈsɪŋk.t͡ʃɚ/

cincture noun: an enclosure, or the act of enclosing, encircling or encompassing.

Noun

cincture (plural cinctures)

  1. An enclosure, or the act of enclosing, encircling or encompassing
  2. A girdle or belt, especially as part of a vestment
    • In one, dated eighteen years ago, he appeared, wearing only sandals and a cincture of vine leaves, between two classical garden statues.1988, Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming-Pool Library, paperback edition, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 161
  3. The fillet, listel, or band next to the apophyge at the extremity of the shaft of a column.

Verb

cincture (third-person singular simple present cinctures, present participle cincturing, simple past and past participle cinctured)

  1. To encircle, or surround.
  2. To girdle (stunt or kill by cutting).

cincture meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Kannada and Indonesian

cincture in Tamil

கச்சை, இடைவார், பற்றிரும்பு

cincture in Bengali

কোমরবন্ধ, বেল্ট

cincture in Kannada

ನಡುಕಟ್ಟು

cincture in Indonesian

girdle or belt
singel

Forms of cincture

Noun
pluralcinctures
Verb
third-person singular presentcinctures
present participlecincturing
past participlecinctured
pastcinctured

Origin of cincture

Learned borrowing from Latin cinctūra. Cognate with Spanish cintura (“waist”). Doublet of ceinture.

Words formed from cincture

Words that rhyme with cincture

Questions about cincture

What does cincture mean?
Cincture means an enclosure, or the act of enclosing, encircling or encompassing.
What is cincture in Tamil?
Cincture in Tamil is கச்சை, இடைவார், பற்றிரும்பு. See Cincture meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is cincture?
Cincture can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce cincture?
Cincture is pronounced /ˈsɪŋk.t͡ʃɚ/.
What is the plural of cincture?
The plural of cincture is cinctures.

Words near cincture in the dictionary

  1. cinct
  2. cinctan
  3. cinctans
  4. cinctoblastula
  5. cinctoblastulas
  6. cincture
  7. cinctured
  8. cinctures
  9. cincturing
  10. Cincy
  11. cinder

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: cincture (page history and authors); cincture (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); cincture (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); cincture (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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