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great toe

great toe noun: synonym of big toe.

Noun

great toe (plural great toes)

  1. (dated) Synonym of big toe.
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    Synonyms:
    big toe

great toe meaning in Tamil, Telugu and Sanskrit

great toe in Tamil

அங்குட்டம், கட்டைவிரல்

great toe in Telugu

the great toe
బొటనవ్రేలు boṭanavrēlu, అంగుష్ఠము aṅguṣṭhamu

great toe in Sanskrit

the great toe
अङ्गुलि aṅgúli

Synonyms of great toe

Forms of great toe

pluralgreat toes

Origin of great toe

From Middle English gret to, grete too. Compare Old English myċle tā (“big toe”, literally “mickle toe”).

Words formed from great toe

Questions about great toe

What does great toe mean?
Great toe means synonym of big toe.
What is great toe in Tamil?
Great toe in Tamil is அங்குட்டம், கட்டைவிரல். See Great toe meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is great toe?
Great toe is a noun.
What is the plural of great toe?
The plural of great toe is great toes.

Words near great toe in the dictionary

  1. great tinamou
  2. great tinamous
  3. great tit
  4. great tits
  5. Great Tobago
  6. great toe
  7. great toe nail
  8. great toe nails
  9. great toe-nail
  10. great toe-nails
  11. great toenail

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Adapted from Wiktionary: great toe (page history and authors); great toe (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); అంగుష్ఠము (Telugu) (page history and authors); अङ्गुलि (Sanskrit) (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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