Word.ws English Dictionary

earlid

earlid noun: an imaginary fold of skin that would allow the ear to be closed as the eye can be.

Noun

earlid (plural earlids)

  1. An imaginary fold of skin that would allow the ear to be closed as the eye can be.
    • But wouldn't earlids be useful too? Possibly. But not so useful that without them earlid-less animals would die out[…]2008, Glenn Murphy, How Loud Can You Burp?, page 22
    • There is no such thing as an earlid. The ear is always open, always supplementing its primary materiality, always multiplying the singularity of perception into the plurality of experience.2009, Seth Kim-Cohen, In the blink of an ear: toward a non-cochlear sonic art, page xx

Forms of earlid

pluralearlids

Origin of earlid

From ear + lid.

Questions about earlid

What does earlid mean?
Earlid means an imaginary fold of skin that would allow the ear to be closed as the eye can be.
What part of speech is earlid?
Earlid is a noun.
What is the plural of earlid?
The plural of earlid is earlids.

Words near earlid in the dictionary

  1. Earlestown
  2. earlet
  3. earlets
  4. Earley
  5. Earleys
  6. earlid
  7. earlids
  8. earlier
  9. Earlier Egyptian
  10. earlier on
  11. earlierness

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: earlid (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “earlid.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/earlid. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.