name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
withers
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.
Sound
Pronunciation
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General-American: /ˈwɪð.ɚz/
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈwɪð.əz/
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CMU ARPABET: W IH1 DH ER0 Z Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
The part of the back of a four-legged animal that is between the shoulder blades; in many species the highest point of the body and the standard place to measure the animal's height.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: plural, plural-normally
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verb
Meaning 3
third-person singular simple present indicative of wither
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
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noun
Meaning 4
the highest part of the back at the base of the neck of various animals especially draft animals
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: body part
History
Etymology
From dialectal English wither (“against”) (compare wither-) + -s; see with. So-named because it is the part of the horse that pushes against a load. Compare German Widerrist (“withers”), from wider (“against”) + Rist (“wrist”).
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Across languages
Translations
23 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Catalan: creu — part of the back of an animal
- Catalan: creuera — part of the back of an animal
- Czech: kohoutek — part of the back of an animal
- Dutch: schoft — part of the back of an animal
- Finnish: säkä — part of the back of an animal
- French: garrot — part of the back of an animal
- Galician: cernella — part of the back of an animal
- Galician: agulla — part of the back of an animal
- Galician: cruz — part of the back of an animal
- German: Widerrist — part of the back of an animal
- Greek: ακρωμία (akromía) — part of the back of an animal
- Hungarian: mar — part of the back of an animal
- Italian: garrese — part of the back of an animal
- Malay: kelasa — part of the back of an animal
- Polish: kłąb — part of the back of an animal
- Portuguese: cernelha — part of the back of an animal
- Russian: хо́лка (xólka) — part of the back of an animal
- Spanish: cruz — part of the back of an animal
- Swedish: manke — part of the back of an animal
- Turkish: omuz — part of the back of an animal
- Ukrainian: хо́лка (xólka) — part of the back of an animal
- Walloon: warot — part of the back of an animal
- Welsh: cudyn ysgwydd — part of the back of an animal