meatbone C2+ Topic:The Human Body US /ˈmiːtˌboʊn/ UK /ˈmiːtˌbəʊn/ See IPA manual Meanings 1 noun a bone with meat still attached, especially as food or scrap The hungry traveler gnawed a meatbone by the fire. Thesaurus Synonyms 1 noun · a bone with meat still... bone-in meatscrap bone More bone Word family Derived forms meatbones Related forms meatbone Etymology AI details A compound of meat + bone. Meat comes from Old English mete ("food"), while bone comes from Old English bān; the compound names a bone still carrying meat. *meh₂d- Proto-Indo-European mete Old English bon Middle English bān Old English View etymology graph -> Topics The Human Body External links Google Images Cambridge Dictionary Wiktionary # meatbone **Type:** Word **Level:** C2+ **Part of speech:** noun **IPA (US):** /ˈmiːtˌboʊn/ **IPA (UK):** /ˈmiːtˌbəʊn/ ## Meanings 1. a bone with meat still attached, especially as food or scrap ## Examples - The hungry traveler gnawed a meatbone by the fire. ## Synonyms - bone-in meat - scrap bone - bone ## Derived Forms - meatbones ## Related Forms - meat - bone ## Roots and Affixes - Root: *meh₂d- - Root: mete - Root: bon - Root: bān ## Etymology A compound of meat + bone. Meat comes from Old English mete ("food"), while bone comes from Old English bān; the compound names a bone still carrying meat. ## AI Etymology Meatbone is a transparent compound of meat + bone. Meat goes back to Old English mete, originally food in general, while bone goes back to Old English bān. In Dickensian context it names a bone with meat still attached, something eaten or gnawed as rough food. Because meatbone is not a standard inflection of either meat or bone, it is treated as its own rare C2+ headword. The meaning follows directly from the compound parts: meat carried on a bone. ## Topics - The Human Body markdown