FluentPlex

bones

/boʊnz/ noun C2
  1. A percussive folk musical instrument played as a pair in one hand, often made from bovine ribs.
  2. Dice for gambling.
  3. Synonym of fist bump. (informal)
  4. The framework or foundation of something.
+ Save to review

From the library

They make you also guard their sheep, and while they eat the mutton throw only the bones to you.
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 58 · B2
He is a man, a man’s child, and from the marrow of my bones I hate him!”
The Jungle Book, p. 22 · B2
A cold, damp reek from the moat chilled us to the bones and set our teeth chattering.
The Valley of Fear, p. 86 · C1
And your bones are very brittle;
A Child's Garden of Verses, p. 8 · C1

Other matches

Learn bones in real texts

With a free account, hover any word in the library for its meaning, hear it read aloud, save words for review timed to your memory, and see how much of each book you already know.

Create free account
Words, meanings, pronunciations and translations from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); how common each word is from wordfreq. Made into this dictionary by FluentPlex.