throat

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The front part of the neck.

   He wore a scarf wrapped around his throat.

2. 2
   noun

   The passage at the back of the mouth that leads to the stomach and lungs.

   I have a sore throat and can hardly swallow.

Common collocations

• sore throat Adjective + noun
• dry throat Adjective + noun
• scratchy throat Adjective + noun
• clear one's throat Verb + noun
• irritate the throat Verb + noun
• soothe one's throat Verb + noun

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.

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