lung
A biological organ of vertebrates that controls breathing and oxygenates the blood.
Noun 3 meanings
A biological organ of vertebrates that controls breathing and oxygenates the blood.
Capacity for exercise or exertion; breath.
“He no longer has the lungs to play long rallies like he used to.”
That which supplies oxygen or fresh air, such as trees, parklands, forest, etc., to a place.
Etymology
From Middle English lunge, longe, from Old English lungen, from Proto-Germanic *lunganjō, an enlargement of *lungô (“the light organ, lung”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁lengʷʰ-, whence ultimately also light.
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LUNG at a glance
LUNG has 4 letters and scores 5 points in Scrabble (L 1 + U 1 + N 1 + G 2) and 9 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #5,973 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with lung
All rhymesOne letter away
- LONG5
- HUNG8
- SUNG5
- LANG5
- LUNA4
- LING5
- DUNG6
- RUNG5
- TUNG5
- FUNG8
- GUNG6
- BUNG7
- LENG5
- LUNE4
- MUNG7
- LUNT4
- PUNG7
- LUNS4
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