waist
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Translations
Noun part of the body
- Spanish
- cintura
- French
- taille
- German
- Taille
- Italian
- vita
- Portuguese
- cintura
- Turkish
- bel
- Russian
- та́лия tálija
- Arabic
- خَصْر ḵaṣr
- Chinese
- 腰 yāo
- Japanese
- ウエスト uesuto
33 more languages
- Dutch
- middel
- Polish
- talia
- Swedish
- midja
- Greek
- μέση mési
- Korean
- 허리 heori
- Indonesian
- pinggang
- Vietnamese
- eo
- Hungarian
- derék
- Portuguese (PT)
- cintura
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 腰 yāo
- Albanian
- bel
- Breton
- dargreiz
- Catalan
- cintura
- Czech
- pás
- Danish
- talje
- Esperanto
- talio
- Estonian
- vöökoht
- Finnish
- vyötärö
- Georgian
- წელი c̣eli
- Hebrew
- מֹתֶן moten
- Icelandic
- mitti
- Kurdish
- navteng
- Latvian
- viduklis
- Lithuanian
- juosmuo
- Norwegian
- midje
- Romanian
- talie
- Scottish Gaelic
- meadhan
- Serbo-Croatian
- struk
- Slovak
- pás
- Slovenian
- pas
- Swahili
- kiuno
- Welsh
- gwasg
- Yiddish
- טאַליע talye
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: OE. wast; originally, growth, akin to AS. weaxan to grow; cf. AS. wæstm growth. See Wax to grow.
1. That part of the human body which is immediately below the ribs or thorax; the small part of the body between the thorax and hips. Geoffrey Chaucer
I am in the waist two yards about.— William Shakespeare
2. Hence, the middle part of other bodies; especially Nautical, that part of a vessel's deck, bulwarks, etc., which is between the quarter-deck and the forecastle; the middle part of the ship.
3. A garment, or part of a garment, which covers the body from the neck or shoulders to the waist line.
4. A girdle or belt for the waist. obsolete William Shakespeare
Waist anchor. See Sheet anchor, 1, in the Vocabulary.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54