lung
UK/ˈlʌŋ/
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Midlands/lʊŋ/
lung noun: a biological organ of vertebrates that controls breathing and oxygenates the blood.
Noun
lung (plural lungs)
- A biological organ of vertebrates that controls breathing and oxygenates the blood.
- I made a speaking trumpet of my hands and commenced to whoop “Ahoy!” and “Hello!” at the top of my lungs. […] The Colonel woke up, and, after asking what in brimstone was the matter, opened his mouth and roared “Hi!” and “Hello!” like the bull of Bashan.1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC
- Capacity for exercise or exertion; breath.
- He no longer has the lungs to play long rallies like he used to.
- That which supplies oxygen or fresh air, such as trees, parklands, forest, etc., to a place.
- Afterwards he found that the vague feeling of alarm had spread to the clients of the underground railway, and that the Sunday excursionists began to return from all the South-Western "lungs" - Barnes, Wimbledon, Richmond Park, Kew, and so forth - at unnaturally early hours[.]1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 123
Proper noun capitalized: Lung
Lung (plural Lungs)
- A surname.
lung meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
lung in Hindi
- organ that extracts oxygen from the air
- फेफड़ा phephṛā, फुफ्फुस phuphphus
lung in Tamil
- organ that extracts oxygen from the air
- நுரையீரல் nuraiyīral
lung in Marathi
- organ that extracts oxygen from the air
- फुफ्फुस phuphphus
lung in Urdu
- organ that extracts oxygen from the air
- پھیپْھڑا phephṛā
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- lung in Bengali
- ফুসফুস phuśophus
- lung in Telugu
- ఊపిరితిత్తి ūpirititti
- lung in Malayalam
- ശ്വാസകോശം śvāsakōśaṁ
- lung in Kannada
- ಉಸಿರುಕ usiruka
- lung in Punjabi
- ਫੇਫੜਾ phephṛā
- lung in Gujarati
- ફેફસું phephsũ
- lung in Odia
- ଫୁସଫୁସ phusphus
- lung in Sanskrit
- फुफ्फुस phuphphusa
- lung in Sinhala
- පෙනහැල්ල penahælla
- lung in Assamese
- হাঁওফাঁও hãüphãü
- lung in Nepali
- फोक्सो phokso
- lung in Pashto
- سږى sᶕẓay
- lung in Tagalog
- baga, pulmon
- lung in Arabic
- رِئَة riʔa, سَحَر saḥar, رِئة riʔa, رية riyya
- lung in Malay
- paru, paru-paru
- lung in Indonesian
- paru-paru, rabu
- lung in Persian
- رِیَه riya, شُش šuš, رِیِه riye
- lung in Thai
- ปอด bpɔ̀ɔt
- lung in Vietnamese
- phổi
- lung in Myanmar
- အဆုတ် a.hcut
Examples of lung in a sentence
- The spot on his lung turned out to be an artifact of the X-ray process.
- She started screaming at the top of her lungs when she saw a snake.
- Many scientific papers suggest an autocrine action of acetylcholin in the lung.
Synonyms of lung
Forms of lung
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | lungs |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Lungs |
Origin of lung
From Middle English lunge, longe, from Old English lungen, from Proto-Germanic *lunganjō, an enlargement of *lungô (“the light organ, lung”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁lengʷʰ-, whence ultimately also light. Cognate with West Frisian long, Dutch long, German Lunge, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk lunge, Swedish lunga, Icelandic lunga, and also Russian лёгкое (ljóxkoje) (lung), Ancient Greek ἐλαφρός (elaphrós, “light in weight”) and perhaps Albanian lungë (“blister, bulge”). Compare Latin levis and Old English lēoht (Modern English light). See also lights (“lungs”). Superseded non-native Middle English pomoun (“lung”), borrowed from Old French poumon, pomon (“lung”).
Words formed from lung
- aqualung
- bagpipe lung
- biolung
- bird breeder's lung
- bird fancier's lung
- black lung
- black lung disease
- book lung
- brown lung
- diffuse parenchymal lung disease
- farmer's lung
- flock worker's lung
- glitter lung
- green lung
- heart-lung machine
- honeycomb lung
- indium lung
- interstitial lung disease
- iron lung
- Labrador lung
- leather-lunged
- lung buster
- lung-busting
- lung butter
- lung cancer
- lung capacity
- lung dart
- lung-digit syndrome
- lungectomy
- lunged
- lungedness
- lunger
- lung fever
- lung fields
- lungfish
- lung flower
- lungful
- lung-grown
- lungless
- lunglessness
- lung lichen
- lunglike
- lung power
- lung sac
- lungsick
- lung sick
- lungsickness
- lung toilet
- lung volume
- lungworm
- lungwort
- mahogany lung
- midlung
- miller's lung
- miner's lung
- nonlung
- outlung
- pigeon fancier's lung
- popcorn lung
- smoker's lung
Phrases with lung
- Ban Lung
- Lung Shan
- lung darts
- Mount Lung
- lung busters
- lung cancers
- lung volumes
- lung sickness
- lung capacities
- coalminer's lung
- wet lung syndrome
- whole lung lavage
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Words that rhyme with lung
Questions about lung
- What does lung mean?
- Lung means a biological organ of vertebrates that controls breathing and oxygenates the blood.
- What is lung in Hindi?
- Lung in Hindi is फेफड़ा (phephṛā), फुफ्फुस (phuphphus). See Lung meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is lung?
- Lung can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce lung?
- Lung is pronounced /ˈlʌŋ/ (UK).
- What is the plural of lung?
- The plural of lung is lungs.
Words near lung in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: lung (page history and authors); Lung (page history and authors); ଫୁସଫୁସ (Odia) (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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