collarbone

/kˈɑlɚbˌoʊn/

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Frequency: 2.78 in modern English

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noun

"The pragmatic journalist’s daughter would, and did, explain these “memories” as the work of an imagination hypersensitized by her father’s recent death, but a detail in one letter will not be dismissed. Robert Frobisher mentions a comet-shaped birthmark between his shoulder blade and collarbone."

From Middle English colar bane; equivalent to collar + bone.

collarbones (plural) collar-bone (alternative) collar bone (alternative)

collarboned

clavicle

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How do you pronounce collarbone?

The recorded pronunciation is /kˈɑlɚbˌoʊn/.

What does collarbone mean?

The bone joining the shoulder and the breastbone.

Where does collarbone come from?

It is traced to Middle English.

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