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somatotype

somatotype noun: a particular type of physique; originally, one of the types defined by William Herbert Sheldon: ectomorphic, endomorphic, mesomorphic.

Noun

somatotype (plural somatotypes)

  1. A particular type of physique; originally, one of the types defined by William Herbert Sheldon: ectomorphic, endomorphic, mesomorphic.
    • The relevant characteristics here are the upright posture, the big round head, the cuddly size and the soft dumpy shape. I suppose the much-loved Bill Oddie is the same somatotype.2009, Jeremy Mynott, chapter 2, in Birdscapes, Princeton and Oxford: Princeton, page 46
    • The observed occurrence of people changing from one somatotype to another has caused many researchers and health practitioners to regard the practice of categorizing people into different somatotypes as unscientific and erroneous.2016 March, “Somatotypes”, in Nutrition News, volume 1, number 1, National Nutrition Centre, archived from the original on 03 Jun 2023, page 2

Verb

somatotype (third-person singular simple present somatotypes, present participle somatotyping, simple past and past participle somatotyped)

  1. (transitive) To classify (a person) by physical build.
    • Apart from Masicampo et al. and Cullinane et al., no previous research has analyzed suspects’ perceived body size and police practices, though past theories of biology and crime, such as Sheldon's somatotyping of criminal behavior as well as several recent studies assess the relationship between...2016 January 20, “Black and Hispanic Men Perceived to Be Large Are at Increased Risk for Police Frisk, Search, and Force”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

somatotype meaning in Tamil

somatotype in Tamil

உடற்கட்டு வகை

Synonyms of somatotype

Forms of somatotype

Noun
pluralsomatotypes
Verb
third-person singular presentsomatotypes
present participlesomatotyping
past participlesomatotyped
pastsomatotyped

Origin of somatotype

From somato- + -type.

Words formed from somatotype

Questions about somatotype

What does somatotype mean?
Somatotype means a particular type of physique; originally, one of the types defined by William Herbert Sheldon: ectomorphic, endomorphic, mesomorphic.
What is somatotype in Tamil?
Somatotype in Tamil is உடற்கட்டு வகை. See Somatotype meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is somatotype?
Somatotype can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of somatotype?
The plural of somatotype is somatotypes.

Words near somatotype in the dictionary

  1. somatotropines
  2. somatotropinoma
  3. somatotropinomas
  4. somatotropins
  5. somatotropism
  6. somatotype
  7. somatotyped
  8. somatotypes
  9. somatotyping
  10. somatotypology
  11. somatovisceral

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Adapted from Wiktionary: somatotype (page history and authors); somatotype (Tamil 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.

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