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throat

UK/ˈθɹəʊt//ˈθɹoʊt/

throat noun: the front part of the neck. Also the abbreviation of station throat.

Noun

throat (plural throats)

  1. The front part of the neck.
    • The wild pitch bounced and hit the catcher in the throat.
    • S'fut, thou lieſt in thy throte, thou knevvſt me as vvell as my ſelfe.1611, George Chapman, May-Day. A Witty Comedie, […], London: […] [William Stansby] for Iohn Brown, […], →OCLC, Act V, page 79
  2. The gullet or windpipe.
    • As I swallowed I felt something strange in my throat.
  3. A narrow opening in a vessel.
    • The water leaked out from the throat of the bottle.
    Synonyms:
    neck, bottleneck
  4. The part of a chimney between the gathering, or portion of the funnel which contracts in ascending, and the flue.
    • By the throat of a Chimney, I mean the lower extremity of its canal, where it unites with the upper part of its open Fire-place.1796, Benjamin Count of Rumford, “Of Chimney Fire-places”, in Essays, Political, Economical and Philosophical, page 332
    • This course of bricks will be upon a level for instance, higher than this part, otherwise the with the top of the door-way left for the chimney throat of the chimney will not be properly form.1816, Encyclopaedia Perthensis
  5. The upper fore corner of a boom-and-gaff sail, or of a staysail.
  6. That end of a gaff which is next to the mast.
  7. The angle where the arm of an anchor is joined to the shank.
    • The shoe iron must then become a mere loose piece of iron, and be found, on the heaving up of the anchor, to have lain on the surface of the soil between it and immediately under the throat of the anchor1868, “Glover's Safety Anchors”, in Hunt's Yachting Magazine
  8. The inside of a timber knee.
  9. The orifice of a tubular organ; the outer end of the tube of a monopetalous corolla; the faux, or fauces.

Verb

throat (third-person singular simple present throats, present participle throating, simple past and past participle throated)

  1. (uncommon) To utter in or with the throat.
    • He beat about and pecked the net until his mate was liberated, and, throating a song of gratitude, the bird he freed flew to the sky.1911, Paul Wilstach, Thais, "the Story of a Sinner who Became a Saint and a Saint who Sinned": A Play in Four Acts, page 17
    • As you know, I have gone in for the more manly athletics here with my visual enthusiasm, throating a nasty tenor on the Glee Club and shaking a vicious hoof on our dancing team. Well, last night the Intercollegiate Shimmy Contest with Goofy ...1921, Harry Charles Witwer, The Rubyiat of a Freshman, page 31
  2. (informal) To take into the throat. (Compare deepthroat.)
    • The Roman began to throat his rigid flagpole of a mancock, making groaning noises.1995, Kyle Stone, Hot bauds: a selection of steamy BBS writings, Badboy
    • His head leaned back, water splashing his face as I throated his solid pipe. Those giant hands found the back of my head as he worked his hips back and forth to pump further and further into my mouth.2017, Brian Patrick Davis, Songs About Boys, →ISBN
  3. (UK, dialectal, obsolete) To mow (beans, etc.) in a direction against their bending.

Also used as

throat is also the abbreviation of station throat.

throat meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

throat in Hindi

front part of the neck
गला galā

throat in Tamil

front part of the neck
தொண்டை toṇṭai

throat in Marathi

front part of the neck
घसा ghasā, गळा gaḷā, कंठ kaṇṭha, नरडे narḍe

throat in Urdu

front part of the neck
گَلا galā, گُلُو gulū, حَلْق halq
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throat in Bengali
গলা gola, ওলকম ōlokom, হলকুম holokum
throat in Telugu
గొంతు gontu
throat in Malayalam
തൊണ്ട toṇṭa
throat in Kannada
ಗೋಣು gōṇu
throat in Punjabi
ਸੰਘ saṅgh
throat in Gujarati
ગળું, ગળાનું ગળું
throat in Odia
ଗଳା
throat in Sanskrit
गल gala, कण्ठ kaṇṭha
throat in Assamese
গল gol
throat in Nepali
घाँटी ghā̃ṭī
throat in Pashto
حلق halq, رغندى rǧə́nday
throat in Tagalog
lalamunan
throat in Arabic
حَلْق ḥalq, حُلْقُوم ḥulqūm
throat in Malay
tekak, kerongkong
throat in Indonesian
tenggorok, tekak
throat in Thai
ลำคอ lam-kɔɔ
throat in Vietnamese
cuống họng, họng
throat in Myanmar
လည်ချောင်း lanyhkyaung:

Examples of throat in a sentence

  • They never will. // MARA: We are forty against four hundred. // KLINGON: Four thousand throats may be cut in one night by a running man. // KANG: Patience.1969, Jerome Bixby, Star Trek episode “Day of the Dove”, Culver City, Calif.: Desilu Studios; distributed by Paramount Television...
  • The tale is bookended by battles – faces meatily pummelled, bones crunchily broken and throats spurtingly sliced as offstage conflicts are placed centre-screen.2015 October 4, Mark Kermode, “Macbeth review – a spittle-flecked Shakespearean war film”, in The Observer:
  • Tariq wants to be tactful and refrains from his natural impulse to throat his pain and curse her loudly in French.2017, Alexis Debary, Arab Nights: Post 9/11 Thriller set in Tunisia, →ISBN:
  • So Hector hereto throated threats, to go to sea in blood[1611?], Homer, “Book XIII”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC...

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Synonyms of throat

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Forms of throat

Noun
pluralthroats
alternative form (obsolete)throate
alternative form (obsolete)throte
Verb
third-person singular presentthroats
present participlethroating
past participlethroated
pastthroated

Plural of throat: throats

Origin of throat

From Middle English throte, from Old English þrote, þrota, þrotu (“throat”), from Proto-West Germanic *þrotu, from Proto-Germanic *þrutō (“throat”), from Proto-Indo-European *trud- (“to swell, become stiff”). Cognate with Dutch strot (“throat”), German Drossel (“throttle, gorge of game (wild animals)”), Faroese troti (“swelling”), Icelandic þroti (“swelling”), Norwegian trut (“mouth”), Swedish trut.

Words formed from throat

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Questions about throat

What does throat mean?
Throat means the front part of the neck.
What is throat in Hindi?
Throat in Hindi is गला (galā). See Throat meaning in Hindi.
How do you use throat in a sentence?
They never will. // MARA: We are forty against four hundred. // KLINGON: Four thousand throats may be cut in one night by a running man. // KANG: Patience.
What part of speech is throat?
Throat can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce throat?
Throat is pronounced /ˈθɹəʊt/ (UK).
What is the plural of throat?
The plural of throat is throats.

Words near throat in the dictionary

  1. thrivingly
  2. thrivingness
  3. thrivings
  4. thro
  5. thro'
  6. throat
  7. throat back
  8. throat backs
  9. throat brail
  10. throat brails
  11. throat distemper

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: throat (page history and authors); throat (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); throat (Odia, 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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