shin
/ʃɪn/
shin noun: the front part of the leg below the knee; the front edge of the shin bone: Shinbone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia.
Noun (1)
shin (plural shins)
Verb
shin (third-person singular simple present shins, present participle shinning, simple past and past participle shinned)
- To climb up or lower oneself down a mast, tree, rope, or the like, by embracing it alternately with the arms and legs, without help of steps, spurs, or the like.
- to shin up a mast
- "The minute the door is shut he shins down a water-pipe, hops on his motor-cycle, and is off at full speed."1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 33
- Synonyms:
- shinny
- To strike with the shin.
- The warning signs had been there as Peter Cech had already had to palm away a stinging shot from Ronald Zubar but immediately afterwards the Blues goalkeeper could only watch in horror as defender Boswinga shinned the ball into his own net from Hunt's corner.2011 January 5, Mark Ashenden, “Wolverhampton 1 - 0 Chelsea”, in BBC
- To run about borrowing money hastily and temporarily, as when trying to make a payment.
- The Senator was shinning around, to get gold for the rascally bank-rags which he was obliged to take.1845 December 13, New York Commercial Advertiser
Noun (2)
shin (plural shins)
- The twenty-first letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others): Shin (letter) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Proper noun (1) capitalized: Shin
Shin
Proper noun (2) capitalized: Shin
Shin (plural Shins)
- A surname from Korean.
shin meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
shin in Hindi
- शिन
shin in Tamil
- முழந்தாள்
shin in Urdu
- شن
shin in Bengali
- পায়ের সামনের অংশ
More languagesFewer languages
- shin in Telugu
- షిన్, షిన్ చేయడానికి
- shin in Malayalam
- വലിഞ്ഞുകയറുക, തളയിട്ടു കയറുക, ആരോഹണം ചെയ്ക, കയറുക
- shin in Kannada
- ಮೊಣಕಾಲು, ಕಣಕಾಲು, ಕಣಕಾಲ್, ಕಣೆಕಾಲ್
- shin in Punjabi
- ਸ਼ਿਨ, ਸ਼ਿਨ ਕਰਨ ਲਈ
- shin in Odia
- ଶିନ୍, ଶିନ୍ କରିବା ପାଇଁ, ଶିନ୍ କରିବାକୁ
- shin in Sanskrit
- अष्ठीवत् aṣṭhīvat
- shin in Nepali
- शिन्
- shin in Tagalog
- lulod
- shin in Arabic
- قَصَبَة qaṣaba, شِين šīn
- shin in Malay
- tulang kering
- shin in Indonesian
- betis depan, tulang kering
- shin in Persian
- ساق sâġ
- shin in Thai
- แข้ง kɛ̂ng
- shin in Vietnamese
- ống quyển, ống khuyển, ống đồng
Examples of shin in a sentence
- Herbert bruised his shin on the corner of the coffee table.
- They were conditioning their shins in their karate class.
- I barked my shins climbing the fence.
Synonyms of shin
Forms of shin
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | shins |
| alternative form | sheen |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | shins |
| present participle | shinning |
| past participle | shinned |
| past | shinned |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Shins |
Origin of shin
From Middle English schyne, from Old English scinu, from Proto-West Germanic *skinu, from Proto-Germanic *skinō. Cognate with West Frisian skine, Dutch scheen, German Schiene. Not related to skin.
From Scottish Gaelic abhainn Sin.
Borrowed from Korean 신 (sin), derived from 申, 辛, or 愼.
Words formed from shin
Phrases with shin
Words that rhyme with shin
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- chin
- Flynn
- bin
- Quinn
- sin
- tin
- Bryn
- corinne
- inn
- din
- Finn
- grin
- kin
- lin
- linn
- unpin
- Benin
- min
- violin
- wherein
- within
- akin
- been
- begin
- brin
- chin-chin
- hin
- lyn
- mandolin
- whin
- zoom in
- agin
- agrin
- Arabian jasmine
- blin
- djinn
- Douyin
- edge in
- gimme some skin
- glyn
- herein
- jinn
- Karin
- kissing kin
- lecithin
- Nguyen
- nin
Questions about shin
- What does shin mean?
- Shin means the front part of the leg below the knee; the front edge of the shin bone: Shinbone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia.
- What is shin in Hindi?
- Shin in Hindi is शिन. See Shin meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is shin?
- Shin can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce shin?
- Shin is pronounced /ʃɪn/.
- What is the plural of shin?
- The plural of shin is shins.
Words near shin in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: shin (page history and authors); Shin (page history and authors); shin (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); shin (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); shin (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); shin (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); shin (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); shin (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); shin (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); shin (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); shin (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); shin (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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