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Synonyms for tooth

Grammar : Noun
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Phonetic Transcription : tuθ

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Définition of tooth

Origin :
  • Old English toð (plural teð), from Proto-Germanic *tanth, *tunth (cf. Old Saxon, Danish, Swedish, Dutch tand, Old Norse tönn, Old Frisian toth, Old High German zand, German Zahn, Gothic tunþus), from PIE *dont-/*dent- "tooth" (cf. Sanskrit danta, Greek odontos, Latin dens, Lithuanian dantis, Old Irish det, Welsh dent). Plural form teeth is an instance of i-mutation. Application to tooth-like parts of other objects (saws, combs, etc.) first recorded 1520s.
  • noun a hard bony structure in the jaws of vertebrates
  • noun a toothlike or tooth-shaped object
  • noun bony object in mouth
Example sentences :
  • We have brains, and with our brains we must do in a scientific way what Nature does with tooth and claw.
  • Extract from : « Her Father's Daughter » by Gene Stratton-Porter
  • Every tooth of the dragon had produced one of these sons of deadly mischief.
  • Extract from : « Tanglewood Tales » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Wherever a dragon's tooth had fallen, there stood a man armed for battle.
  • Extract from : « Tanglewood Tales » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • The Widder detected it, and occupied herself with her tooth.
  • Extract from : « Meadow Grass » by Alice Brown
  • I passed you close enough to pull a tooth, but you were awful busy.
  • Extract from : « Alice Adams » by Booth Tarkington
  • The humiliation of it ate into his soul; and the tooth was sharpened by his own misdeeds.
  • Extract from : « Southern Lights and Shadows » by Various
  • The tooth of every dog was against him, the hand of every man.
  • Extract from : « White Fang » by Jack London
  • The latter was angered, and he swallowed her, tooth and nail.
  • Extract from : « The Chinese Fairy Book » by Various
  • And, anyway, I didn't care so much, with this tooth of mine aching like it does.
  • Extract from : « Ruggles of Red Gap » by Harry Leon Wilson
  • "You have guessed at the tooth which aches," said Riccabocca with admiration.
  • Extract from : « The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851 » by Various
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