mouth

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The opening in your face that you use for eating and speaking.

   She opened her mouth and took a big bite of the apple.

2. 2
   noun

   The place where a river flows into the sea or a larger body of water.

   The city sits at the mouth of the Hudson River.

3. 3
   noun

   An opening shaped like a mouth, such as that of a cave, jar, or bottle.

   We rode our horses into the mouth of the canyon.

4. 4
   noun

   A person you have to feed and support.

   With four children, they have a lot of mouths to feed.

Common collocations

• close one's mouth Verb + noun
• open one's mouth Verb + noun
• wipe one's mouth Verb + noun
• dry mouth Adjective + noun
• wide mouth Adjective + noun
• cover one's mouth Verb + noun

From Middle English mouth, from Old English mūþ, from Proto-West Germanic *munþ, from Proto-Germanic *munþaz (“mouth”), from Proto-Indo-European *ment- (“to chew; jaw, mouth”). Cognate with Scots mooth (“mouth”), North Frisian mös, müs, Mür (“mouth”), West Frisian mûn (“mouth”), Dutch mond (“mouth”), muide (“river mouth”) and mui (“riptide”), German Mund (“mouth”), Luxembourgish Mond (“mouth”), Danish mund (“mouth”), Faroese muður, munnur (“mouth”), Icelandic munnur (“mouth”), Swedish mun (“mouth”), Norwegian munn (“mouth”), Gothic 𐌼𐌿𐌽𐌸𐍃 (munþs, “mouth”), Latin mentum (“chin”) and mandō (“to c…

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