eyelid
/ˈaɪ.lɪd/
eyelid noun: a thin skin membrane that covers and moves over an eye.
Noun
eyelid (plural eyelids)
- A thin skin membrane that covers and moves over an eye.
- By his neeſings a light doth ſhine, and his eyes are like the eye-liddes of the morning.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Job 41:18, column 2
- […] the frightened or insane eyes of an animal, sometimes with eyelids closed in escapeful slumber.2000, Joshua P. Warren, The Evil in Asheville, page 246
eyelid meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
eyelid in Hindi
- anatomy: a thin skin membrane that covers and moves over an eye
- पपोटा papoṭā, पलक palak
eyelid in Tamil
- anatomy: a thin skin membrane that covers and moves over an eye
- இரப்பை irappai
eyelid in Marathi
- anatomy: a thin skin membrane that covers and moves over an eye
- पापणी pāpṇī
eyelid in Urdu
- anatomy: a thin skin membrane that covers and moves over an eye
- پپوٹا papoṭā, پلک palk
More languagesFewer languages
- eyelid in Bengali
- চোখের পাতা cōkher pata, নেত্রপল্লব netropollob
- eyelid in Telugu
- కనురెప్ప kanureppa, రెప్ప reppa
- eyelid in Malayalam
- കൺപോള kaṇpōḷa
- eyelid in Kannada
- ಕಣ್ಗೆವೆ kaṇgeve
- eyelid in Punjabi
- ਛੱਪਰ chappar, ਪਲਕ palak
- eyelid in Gujarati
- પોપચું popcũ, અક્ષિપુટ akṣipuṭ
- eyelid in Odia
- ଆଖିପତା
- eyelid in Sanskrit
- नेत्रच्छद netracchada, नयनपुट nayanapuṭa, अक्षिपुट akṣipuṭa, पुट puṭa
- eyelid in Assamese
- পতা pota
- eyelid in Nepali
- परेली parelī
- eyelid in Tagalog
- takipmata, takubmata, talukapmata
- eyelid in Arabic
- جَفْن jafn
- eyelid in Malay
- kelopak mata
- eyelid in Indonesian
- kelopak mata
- eyelid in Persian
- پلک pelk, پلکه poloke, پرک perk, بلگ balg
- eyelid in Thai
- เปลือกตา bplʉ̀ʉak-dtaa, หนังตา nǎng-dtaa, กลีบตา
- eyelid in Vietnamese
- mí mắt, mí
- eyelid in Myanmar
- မျက်ခွံ myakhkwam, မျက်လွှာ myakhlwa
Examples of eyelid in a sentence
- Horner's syndrome consists of typically unilateral miosis and eyelid ptosis, and absent forehead sweating.
- He found his eyelid flutters annoying enough to see a doctor about them.
- Eublepharid geckos lack adhesive toepads and, unlike other geckos, have movable eyelids.
Synonyms of eyelid
Forms of eyelid
| plural | eyelids |
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Origin of eyelid
From Middle English eyelidd, eye-led, eiȝelid, eghe-lydd, yȝe-lydd, ehlid, yhelidd, from an unrecorded Old English *ēaghlid (“eyelid”), from Proto-West Germanic *augahlid (“eyelid”), equivalent to eye + lid. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Oogenlid (“eyelid”), West Frisian eachlid (“eyelid”), Dutch ooglid (“eyelid”), German Low German Ooglidd (“eyelid”), German Augenlid (“eyelid”). Generally superseded non-native Middle English palpebre (“eyelid”), borrowed from Latin palpebra (“eyelid”) (see Modern English palpebra).
Words formed from eyelid
Phrases with eyelid
Words that rhyme with eyelid
Questions about eyelid
- What does eyelid mean?
- Eyelid means a thin skin membrane that covers and moves over an eye.
- What is eyelid in Hindi?
- Eyelid in Hindi is पपोटा (papoṭā), पलक (palak). See Eyelid meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is eyelid?
- Eyelid is a noun.
- How do you pronounce eyelid?
- Eyelid is pronounced /ˈaɪ.lɪd/.
- What is the plural of eyelid?
- The plural of eyelid is eyelids.
Words near eyelid in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: eyelid (page history and authors); ಕಣ್ಗೆವೆ (Kannada) (page history and authors); eyelid (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); अक्षिपुट (Sanskrit) (page history and authors); পতা (Assamese) (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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