Stomach

Quick meaning: Stomach is a noun meaning An organ in animals that stores food in the process of digestion.

Meaning

An organ in animals that stores food in the process of digestion.

More Meanings

1. (informal) The belly.
2. (uncountable, obsolete) Pride, haughtiness.
3. (figuratively) A desire, an appetite (for something abstract).
4. The part of a garment that covers a person's stomach.
5. (transitive) To tolerate (something), emotionally, physically, or mentally; to stand or handle something.
6. (obsolete) An appetite.
7. (obsolete, intransitive) To be angry.

Example Sentences

a good stomach for roast beef

Why did you hit me in the stomach?

He was a man / Of an unbounded stomach, ever ranking / Himself with princes;

You come not home because you have no stomach. / You have no stomach, having broke your fast.

Word Forms

• stomachs
• stomack
• stomaching
• stomached

Synonyms for stomach

Depending on context, synonyms include brook, belly, abdomen, tummy, bouk, gut.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include tummy, tum, bear, abdomen, belly, breadbasket.

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