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goitre

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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Pronunciation

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  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈɡɔɪ.tə/
  • General-American: /ˈɡɔɪ.tɚ/
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  • rhymes with -ɔɪtə(ɹ)

1

noun

Meaning 1

An enlargement of the front and sides of the neck caused by inflammation of the thyroid gland.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: UK, countable, uncountable

Topics: medicine, pathology, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

abnormally enlarged thyroid gland; can result from underproduction or overproduction of hormone or from a deficiency of iodine in the diet

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: goiter, struma, thyromegaly

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: disease

History

Etymology

Borrowed from French, either from Old French goitron (“throat, neck, goitre”), itself from Vulgar Latin *gutturiō, *gutturiōnem (“throat, goitre-like protrusions”), from Latin guttur, or a back-formation from French goitreux (“goitered”).

Across languages

Translations

74 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: تَضَخُّم الْغُدَّة الدَّرَقِيَّة — enlargement of the neck
  • Armenian: խպիպ (xpip) — enlargement of the neck
  • Central Bikol: bugon — enlargement of the neck
  • Bulgarian: гуша (guša) — enlargement of the neck
  • Burmese: လည်ပင်းကြီးရောဂါ (lanypang:kri:rau:ga) — enlargement of the neck
  • Catalan: goll — enlargement of the neck
  • Catalan: gotirló — enlargement of the neck
  • Chinese Mandarin: 甲狀腺腫 /甲状腺肿 (jiǎzhuàngxiàn-zhǒng) — enlargement of the neck
  • Czech: vole — enlargement of the neck
  • Czech: struma — enlargement of the neck
  • Dutch: krop — enlargement of the neck
  • Dutch: struma — enlargement of the neck
  • Estonian: hõõtsik — enlargement of the neck
  • Estonian: struuma — enlargement of the neck
  • Finnish: struuma — enlargement of the neck
  • French: goitre — enlargement of the neck
  • Galician: papeira — enlargement of the neck
  • Galician: gaxolo — enlargement of the neck
  • German: Kropf — enlargement of the neck
  • German: Struma — enlargement of the neck
  • German: Satthals — enlargement of the neck
  • Greek: βρογχοκήλη (vronchokíli) — enlargement of the neck
  • Hungarian: golyva — enlargement of the neck
  • Hungarian: strúma — enlargement of the neck
  • Hungarian: pajzsmirigy-megnagyobbodás — enlargement of the neck
  • Indonesian: gondok — enlargement of the neck
  • Interlingua: struma — enlargement of the neck
  • Irish: ainglis — enlargement of the neck
  • Italian: gozzo — enlargement of the neck
  • Japanese: 甲状腺腫 (kōjōsen-shu) — enlargement of the neck
  • Javanese: gondhok — enlargement of the neck
  • Khmer: ពកក (pôkâk) — enlargement of the neck
  • Korean: 갑상선종 (gapsangseonjong) — enlargement of the neck
  • Latin: strūma — enlargement of the neck
  • Latvian: kākslis — enlargement of the neck
  • Lithuanian: gūžys — enlargement of the neck
  • Luxembourgish: Krapp — enlargement of the neck
  • Macedonian: гу́ша (gúša) — enlargement of the neck
  • Macedonian: струма (struma) — enlargement of the neck
  • Magahi: 𑂐𑂵𑂐𑂰 (gheghā) — enlargement of the neck
  • Maithili: घेघ (ghēgh) — enlargement of the neck
  • Manx: anglysh — enlargement of the neck
  • Māori: tenga — enlargement of the neck
  • Māori: mate pukukakī — enlargement of the neck
  • Mongolian: бахлуур (baxluur) — enlargement of the neck
  • Mongolian: бамбай булчирхайн томролт (bambaj bulčirxajn tomrolt) — enlargement of the neck
  • Mongolian: бамбай булчирхайн хавтар (bambaj bulčirxajn xavtar) — enlargement of the neck
  • Norwegian Bokmål: struma — enlargement of the neck
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: struma — enlargement of the neck
  • Persian: غمباد (ġambâd) — enlargement of the neck
  • Persian: گواتر (govâtr) — enlargement of the neck
  • Plautdietsch: Kropp — enlargement of the neck
  • Polish: wole — enlargement of the neck
  • Portuguese: bócio — enlargement of the neck
  • Portuguese: escrófulas — enlargement of the neck
  • Portuguese: papeira — enlargement of the neck
  • Punjabi: ਗਿੱਲ੍ਹੜ (gillhaṛ) — enlargement of the neck
  • Romanian: gușă — enlargement of the neck
  • Russian: зоб (zob) — enlargement of the neck
  • Spanish: bocio — enlargement of the neck
  • Spanish: coto — enlargement of the neck
  • Spanish: güecho — enlargement of the neck
  • Spanish: güegüecho — enlargement of the neck
  • Swedish: struma — enlargement of the neck
  • Tagalog: bosyo — enlargement of the neck
  • Tày: niêng — enlargement of the neck
  • Thai: คอพอก — enlargement of the neck
  • Tibetan: ལྦ་བ (lba ba) — enlargement of the neck
  • Turkish: guatr — enlargement of the neck
  • Ukrainian: во́ло (vólo) — enlargement of the neck
  • Vietnamese: bướu — enlargement of the neck
  • Welsh: chwydd y gwddf — enlargement of the neck
  • Yoruba: gẹ̀gẹ̀ — enlargement of the neck
  • Yoruba: ugbègbè — enlargement of the neck