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Synonyms for knee


Grammar : Noun
Spell : nee
Phonetic Transcription : ni



Définition of knee

Origin :
  • Old English cneo, cneow "knee," from Proto-Germanic *knewam (cf. Old Norse kne, Old Saxon kneo, Old Frisian kni, Middle Dutch cnie, Dutch knie, Old High German kniu, German Knie, Gothic kniu), from PIE root *g(e)neu- (cf. Sanskrit janu, Avestan znum, Hittite genu "knee;" Greek gony "knee," gonia "corner, angle;" Latin genu "knee"). Knee-slapper "funny joke" is from 1955.
  • noun body part
Example sentences :
  • She merely turned her head and rubbed his knee with her nose.
  • Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand
  • He had somehow injured his knee that he could not walk a step.
  • Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
  • He sat forward in his chair, his hands folded around his knee, and looked at it.
  • Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart
  • Hot tears fell on Harriet's fashion-book as it lay on her knee.
  • Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart
  • She unfolded a Star clipping and proudly spread it upon my knee.
  • Extract from : « The Bacillus of Beauty » by Harriet Stark
  • "Amanthis," repeated the child, dreamily, as she leaned against his knee.
  • Extract from : « The Little Colonel » by Annie Fellows Johnston
  • They're Ballyards men, and a Ballyards man never bent the knee to no one!'
  • Extract from : « The Foolish Lovers » by St. John G. Ervine
  • It all poured out of him in a torrent, his hand on my knee most of the time.
  • Extract from : « The Underdog » by F. Hopkinson Smith
  • He flicked the ashes from his cigar, nursing his knee with the other hand.
  • Extract from : « The Underdog » by F. Hopkinson Smith
  • He withdrew his hand from my knee, and pushed one of the logs petulantly with his foot.
  • Extract from : « In the Valley » by Harold Frederic

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