shoulders
plural of “shoulder” — the part of the body between the neck and the upper arm
An inflected form of shoulder · plural.
How often you will meet it
Rank 857 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 21,404 times across 175,160 chapters — 0.010% of every word in the library.
It belongs to the first 1,000 words, the band worth learning before any other.
What it means
noun
- the part of the body between the neck and the upper arm
- a cut of meat including the upper joint of the foreleg
- a ball-and-socket joint between the head of the humerus and a cavity of the scapula also: shoulder joint, articulatio humeri
- the part of a garment that covers or fits over the shoulder an ornamental gold braid on the shoulder of his uniform
- a narrow edge of land (usually unpaved) along the side of a road also: berm the car pulled off onto the shoulder
shoulders in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Imperceptibly the commissary of police shrugged his shoulders.
Other People's Money · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1
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They hung down to his shoulders, as I told you before.
Famous Stories Every Child Should Know · Hamilton Wright [Editor] Mabie · Chapter 1
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Vrouw Vedder put a yoke across her shoulders, with hooks hanging from each end of it.
The Dutch Twins · Lucy Fitch Perkins · Chapter 1
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She was thirty-four and a well-set-up creature, with fine square shoulders and a long small waist and good hips.
Emily Fox-Seton · Frances Hodgson Burnett · Chapter 1
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With that, even as the thunder of voices began, he felt himself lifted, swung to men's shoulders, carried forward.
The Courage of the Commonplace · Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews · Chapter 1