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BNC: 1747 COCA: 1854

tooth

noun

ˈtüth How to pronounce tooth (audio)
plural teeth ˈtēth How to pronounce tooth (audio)
1
a
: one of the hard bony appendages that are borne on the jaws or in many of the lower vertebrates on other bones in the walls of the mouth or pharynx and serve especially for the prehension and mastication of food and as weapons of offense and defense
b
: any of various usually hard and sharp processes especially about the mouth of an invertebrate
2
: a projection resembling or suggesting the tooth of an animal in shape, arrangement, or action
a saw tooth
: such as
a
: any of the regular projections on the circumference or sometimes the face of a wheel that engage with corresponding projections on another wheel especially to transmit force : cog
b
: a small sharp-pointed marginal lobe or process on a plant
3
a
teeth plural : effective means of enforcement
drug laws with teeth
b
: something that injures, tortures, devours, or destroys
jealousy with rankling tooth Thomas Gray
4
: taste, liking
5
: a roughness of surface produced by mechanical or artificial means
toothlike
ˈtüth-ˌlīk How to pronounce tooth (audio)
adjective

Illustration of tooth

Illustration of tooth
  • A outside of a molar
Phrases
in the teeth of
1
: in or into direct contact or collision with
sailing in the teeth of a hurricane Current Biography
2
: in direct opposition to
rule had … been imposed by conquest in the teeth of obstinate resistance A. J. Toynbee
to the teeth
: fully, completely
armed to the teeth

Example Sentences

The dentist will have to pull that tooth. You should brush your teeth every morning and night. She clenched her teeth in anger. He has a set of false teeth. the teeth of a saw The labor union showed that it has teeth. See More
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Word History

Etymology

Middle English, from Old English tōth; akin to Old High German zand tooth, Latin dent-, dens, Greek odont-, odous

First Known Use

before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a

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The first known use of tooth was before the 12th century

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