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torso

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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  • UK: /ˈtɔː.səʊ̯/
  • UK: [ˈthɔː.səʊ̯] ~ [ˈthɔː.sɵ̞ʊ̯]
  • US: /ˈtoɹ.soʊ̯/
  • US: [ˈthoɹ.soʊ̯] ~ /ˈtɔɹ.sɔʊ̯/
  • US: [ˈthɔɹ.sɔʊ̯]
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)səʊ
  • CMU ARPABET: T AO1 R S OW2 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

The main part of the (human) body that extends from the neck to the groin, excluding the head and limbs.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: torse, trunk

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

the body excluding the head and neck and limbs

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • they moved their arms and legs and bodies

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: trunk, body

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: body part

History

Etymology

From Italian torso, from Late Latin tursus, from Latin thyrsus, from Ancient Greek θύρσος (thúrsos, “Bacchic staff”). Doublet of thyrse, thyrsus, and torse.

Across languages

Translations

175 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Albanian: trung — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Arabic: جِذْع (jiḏʕ) — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Arabic: جِسْم (jism) — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Arabic: جُسْمَان (jusmān) — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Aramaic: ܫܠܕܐ (šəladdā) — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Aramaic: ܩܘܪܡܐ (qōrmā) — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Armenian: մարմին (marmin) — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Armenian: իրան (iran) — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Azerbaijani: gövdə — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Bashkir: кәүҙә (kəwźə) — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Belarusian: ту́лава (túlava) — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Belarusian: торс (tors) — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Belarusian: ко́рпус (kórpus) — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Bengali: ধড় (dhoṛ) — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Breton: korf-bras — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Breton: kef — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Bulgarian: ту́ловище (túlovište) — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Bulgarian: труп (trup) — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Bulgarian: ко́рпус (kórpus) — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Bulgarian: то́рсо (tórso) — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Bulgarian: торс (tors) — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Burmese: ကိုယ် (kuiy) — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Catalan: tors — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Catalan: tronc — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Catalan: cos — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Chinese Cantonese: 軀幹 /躯干 (keoi1 gon3) — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Chinese Mandarin: 軀幹 /躯干 (qūgàn) — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Crimean Tatar: kevde — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Czech: tělo — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Czech: trup — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Czech: torzo — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Danish: overkrop — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Danish: torso — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Dutch: torso — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Dutch: romp — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Dutch: corpus — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Dutch: lijf — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Esperanto: torso — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Estonian: kere — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Finnish: vartalo — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Finnish: torso — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Finnish: ylävartalo — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Finnish: yläruumis — body excluding the head and limbs
  • French: torse — body excluding the head and limbs
  • French: tronc — body excluding the head and limbs
  • French: buste — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Gagauz: güüdä — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Galician: tronco — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Galician: corpo — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Georgian: ტანი (ṭani) — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Georgian: ტორსი (ṭorsi) — body excluding the head and limbs
  • German: Torso — body excluding the head and limbs
  • German: Rumpf — body excluding the head and limbs
  • German: Oberkörper — body excluding the head and limbs
  • German: Leib — body excluding the head and limbs
  • German: Körperstamm — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Greek: κορμός (kormós) — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Haitian Creole: bis — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Hebrew: טוֹרְסוֹ (tórso) — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Hebrew: גֵו (gev) — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Hebrew: גּוּף (guf) — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Hindi: धड़ (dhaṛ) — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Hindi: कबंध (kabandh) — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Hungarian: felsőtest — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Hungarian: törzs — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Hungarian: torzó — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Icelandic: búkur — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Icelandic: bolur — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Ido: korpo — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Italian: tronco — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Italian: busto — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Italian: torso — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Italian: corpo — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Japanese: 胴 (dō) — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Japanese: 胴体 (dōtai) — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Kazakh: бәден (bäden) — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Kazakh: дене (dene) — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Kazakh: кеуде (keude) — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Kazakh: көкірек (kökırek) — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Kazakh: тұлға (tūlğa) — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Khmer: សង្ខារ (sɑɑsɑngkhaa) — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Khmer: អង្គ (ʼɑng) — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Khmer: ដង (dɑɑng) — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Korean: 몸통 (momtong) — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Korean: 동체 (dongche) — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Northern Kurdish: gewde — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Kyrgyz: дене (dene) — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Kyrgyz: көөдөн (köödön) — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Lao: ກາຍ (kāi) — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Lao: ສະກົນ (sa kon) — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Lao: ສະລີລະ (sa lī la) — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Lao: ສໍາລານ (sam lān) — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Latin: truncus — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Latvian: rumpis — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Latvian: torss — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Lithuanian: liemuo — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Lithuanian: torsas — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Macedonian: труп (trup) — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Macedonian: торзо (torzo) — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Malay: torso — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Māori: tūmū — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Middle English: tronke — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Mongolian: их бие (ix bije) — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Navajo: azhiʼ — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Norwegian Bokmål: overkropp — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Norwegian Bokmål: torso — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: overkropp — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: torso — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: bol — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Old East Slavic: тулово (tulovo) — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Pashto: تنه (tana) — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Persian: نیمتَنِه (nim-tane) — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Persian: تَنِه (tane) — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Polish: tułów — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Polish: korpus — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Polish: kadłub — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Portuguese: tronco — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Portuguese: corpo — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Portuguese: torso — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Romanian: trunchi — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Romanian: trup — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Romanian: tors — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Russian: ту́ловище (túlovišče) — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Russian: торс (tors) — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Russian: ко́рпус (kórpus) — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Russian: ту́лово (túlovo) — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Scottish Gaelic: com — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Scottish Gaelic: corp — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Serbo-Croatian: то̏рзо — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Serbo-Croatian: тру̑п — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Serbo-Croatian: tȍrzo — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Serbo-Croatian: trȗp — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Sikkimese: སྐུ་སྷོད — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Slovak: telo — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Slovak: trup — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Slovak: driek — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Slovak: torzo — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Slovene: trup — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Spanish: torso — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Spanish: tronco — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Spanish: troncón — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Swahili: kiwiliwili — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Swedish: överkropp — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Swedish: torso — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Swedish: kropp — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Tajik: тан (tan) — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Tajik: колбад (kolbad) — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Tajik: бадан (badan) — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Tatar: бәдән (bädän) — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Telugu: మొండెము (moṇḍemu) — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Thai: ลําตัว (lam-dtuua) — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Thai: เนื้อตัว (nʉ́ʉa-dtuua) — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Thai: ตัว (dtuua) — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Turkish: gövde — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Old Anatolian Turkish: كوده (gävdä, gövdä) — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Ottoman Turkish: گوگده (göğde, gövde) — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Ottoman Turkish: بدن (beden) — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Turkmen: göwre — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Turkmen: korpus — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Ukrainian: ту́луб (túlub) — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Ukrainian: торс (tors) — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Ukrainian: ко́рпус (kórpus) — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Urdu: دَھڑ (dhaṛ) — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Uyghur: گەۋدە (gewde) — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Uzbek: gavda — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Uzbek: tana — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Uzbek: korpus — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Uzbek: tors — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Vietnamese: thân — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Vietnamese: thân mình — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Vietnamese: mình — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Walloon: coir — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Walloon: bodje — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Welsh: torso — body excluding the head and limbs
  • Welsh: bongorff — body excluding the head and limbs