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noun
Liquid waste consisting of water, salts, and urea, which is made in the kidneys, stored in the bladder, then released through the urethra.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
Topics: medicine, physiology, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To urinate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
liquid excretory product
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: piss, pee, piddle, weewee, water
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: body waste, excretion, excreta, excrement, excretory product
History
From Middle English uryne, from Latin ūrīna (“urine”), from Proto-Indo-European *uh1r-, zero grade of *woh1-r̥ (“water, liquid, milk”). Related to *h1ówHdhr̥ (“udder”) (see udder). Cognate with Old English ūriġ (“wet, moist”). Displaced native English land (“urine”) (from Middle English land, from Old English hland (“urine”)), though lant survives with a specialized sense.
Across languages
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