hormone
UK/ˈhɔːməʊn//ˈhoɹmoʊn/
hormone noun: any substance produced by one tissue and conveyed by the bloodstream to another to effect physiological activity.
Noun
hormone (plural hormones)
- Any substance produced by one tissue and conveyed by the bloodstream to another to effect physiological activity.
- Interfemale dominance may be facilitated by female sex hormones as well as adrenal testosterone...1998, Paul Valent, Trauma and fulfillment therapy: a wholist framework
- Hormones are the bicycle couriers of the body, delivering chemical messages all around the teeming metropolis that is you.2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan (2020), page 165
- A synthetic compound with the same activity.
- Tumours of the adrenal cortex which secreted feminizing hormones […]1962, D. J. B. Ashley, Human Intersex
- Gender-affirming hormone therapy may involve testosterone for trans people assigned female at birth (AFAB) and estradiol and anti-androgens for trans people AMAB.2021, Jane Y. Xu, Michelle A. O’Connell, Lauren Notini, Ada S. Cheung, Sav Zwickl, Ken C. Pang, “Selective Estrogen Receptor Modulators: A Potential Option For Non-Binary Gender-Affirming Hormonal...
- Sex hormones, as used in hormone replacement therapy for transgender or intersex people.
- I'm going to be going to slightly higher doses of hormones soon.
- Any similar substance in plants.
Verb
hormone (third-person singular simple present hormones, present participle hormoning, simple past and past participle hormoned)
- To treat with hormones.
hormone meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Bengali and Telugu
hormone in Hindi
- substance produced by the body that effects physiological activity
- ग्रंथिरस granthiras, न्यासर्ग nyāsarg, अंतःस्राव antaḥsrāv
hormone in Tamil
- substance produced by the body that effects physiological activity
- புலங்கள் pulaṅkaḷ
hormone in Bengali
- হরমোন, প্রাণরস
hormone in Telugu
- హార్మోన్
More languagesFewer languages
- hormone in Malayalam
- അന്തർഗ്രന്ഥി സ്രാവം
- hormone in Kannada
- ಒಳಹರಿಗೆ
- hormone in Gujarati
- ન્યાસર્ગ nyāsarg, અંતઃસ્રાવ antaḥsrāv
- hormone in Arabic
- هُرْمُون hurmūn
- hormone in Indonesian
- hormon
- hormone in Persian
- هورمون hurmun
- hormone in Thai
- ฮอร์โมน hɔɔ-moon
- hormone in Vietnamese
- nội tiết tố
Examples of hormone in a sentence
- Sterols are found in all animal and plant tissue and play an important role in hormone chemistry.
- The peaking of each of these hormone levels may occur at different times.
- Trans women often undergo hormone replacement therapy using estrogens and antiandrogens.
Forms of hormone
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | hormones |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | hormones |
| present participle | hormoning |
| past participle | hormoned |
| past | hormoned |
Origin of hormone
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ὁρμῶν (hormôn), present participle of ὁρμάω (hormáō, “to set in motion, to urge on”), from ὁρμή (hormḗ, “rapid motion forwards, onrush, onset, assault, impulse to do a thing, effort”).
Words formed from hormone
- adipohormone
- adrenocorticotropic hormone
- allohormone
- antidiuretic hormone
- antihormone
- anti-Müllerian hormone
- bovine growth hormone
- caudodorsal cell hormone
- corticotropin-releasing hormone
- dorsal body hormone
- ectohormone
- enterohormone
- follicle stimulating hormone
- follicle-stimulating hormone
- glycohormone
- gonadotropin-releasing hormone
- growth hormone
- hormonal
- hormonelike
- hormone replacement therapy
- hormone-replacement therapy
- hormones
- hormone therapy
- hormonization
- hormonize
- hormonogenesis
- hormonology
- hormonome
- hormonomics
- inhibiting hormone
- juvenile hormone
- light green cell hormone
- luteinising hormone
- luteinizing hormone
- melanocyte-stimulating hormone
- mones
- 'mones
- Müllerian-inhibiting hormone
- multihormone
- necrohormone
- neurohormone
- neurohypophysis hormone
- nonhormone
- orgone
- parahormone
- parathormone
- parathyroid hormone
- phytohormone
- plant hormone
- prehormone
- preprohormone
- prohormone
- proteohormone
- prothoracicotropic hormone
- releasing hormone
- rooting hormone
- sex hormone
- sex hormone binding globulin
- sex hormone-binding globulin
- sex-hormone-binding globulin
Phrases with hormone
Questions about hormone
- What does hormone mean?
- Hormone means any substance produced by one tissue and conveyed by the bloodstream to another to effect physiological activity.
- What is hormone in Hindi?
- Hormone in Hindi is ग्रंथिरस (granthiras), न्यासर्ग (nyāsarg), अंतःस्राव (antaḥsrāv). See Hormone meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is hormone?
- Hormone can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce hormone?
- Hormone is pronounced /ˈhɔːməʊn/ (UK).
- What is the plural of hormone?
- The plural of hormone is hormones.
Words near hormone in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: hormone (page history and authors); Hormone (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); hormone (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hormone (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); hormone (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.
Last updated:
Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: en-us-hormone.ogg.
Cite this entry: “hormone.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/hormone. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.