"bowels" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /baʊ.əlz/ [General-American] Audio: En-us-bowels.ogg
Rhymes: -aʊəlz Head templates: {{en-noun|p}} bowels pl (plural only)
  1. The deepest or innermost part. Tags: plural, plural-only Synonyms (deepest or innermost part): centre, center, core, heart Translations (deepest or innermost part): nitro [feminine] (Czech), entrañas [feminine, plural] (Galician), Tiefen [feminine] (German), Eingeweide [neuter, plural] (German), Innerstes [neuter] (German), Verborgenes [neuter] (German), profondità [feminine, plural] (Italian), viscere (note: of the earth) [feminine, plural] (Italian), 알맹이 (almaeng'i) (Korean), entranhas [feminine, plural] (Portuguese), нутро́ (nutró) [neuter] (Russian), вну́тренности (vnútrennosti) [feminine, plural] (Russian), не́дра (nédra) (note: of the earth) [neuter, plural] (Russian), profundidades [feminine, plural] (Spanish), entrañas [plural] (Spanish)
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  2. The concept or quality that defines something at its very core. Tags: plural, plural-only Translations (concept or quality that defines something at its very core): jádro [neuter] (Czech), Wesenskern [masculine] (German), innerstes Wesen [neuter] (German), innerster Kern [masculine] (German), 알맹이 (almaeng'i) (Korean), ядро́ (jadró) [neuter] (Russian)
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  3. The intestines. Tags: plural, plural-only Synonyms (intestines): entrails, guts, intestine Translations (intestines): ingewande (Afrikaans), χολάδες (kholádes) [feminine, plural] (Ancient Greek), مِعًى (miʕan) [masculine] (Arabic), içalat (Azerbaijani), bağırsaq (Azerbaijani), intestins [masculine, plural] (Catalan), budell [masculine] (Catalan), (Chinese Mandarin), (cháng) (Chinese Mandarin), 腸子 (Chinese Mandarin), 肠子 (chángzi) (Chinese Mandarin), střevo [neuter] (Czech), střeva [neuter, plural] (Czech), entrailles [feminine, plural] (French), boyaux [masculine, plural] (French), intestinos [masculine, plural] (Galician), Gedärme [feminine] (German), Eingeweide [neuter, plural] (German), 𐌷𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌸𐍂𐌰 (hairþra) [neuter, plural] (Gothic), inní [masculine, plural] (Irish), interiora [feminine, plural] (Italian), budella [feminine, plural] (Italian), (alt: ちょう, chō, わた, wata) (Japanese), 배알 (baeal) (Korean), 창자 (changja) (Korean), ngākau [archaic] (Maori), piro (Maori), piropiro (Maori), intestins [masculine, plural] (Occitan), budèl [masculine] (Occitan), intestinos [masculine, plural] (Portuguese), кишки́ (kiškí) [feminine, plural] (Russian), intestinos [masculine] (Spanish), ruột (Vietnamese), tràng (Vietnamese)
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  4. Compassion, sympathy. Tags: plural, plural-only
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  5. (obsolete) The body as the source of offspring. Tags: obsolete, plural, plural-only
    Sense id: en-bowels-en-noun-UUyWXA~t Categories (other): Terms with Ancient Greek translations Disambiguation of Terms with Ancient Greek translations: 15 30 26 9 10 9
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: bowelless [obsolete], move one's bowels

Noun

IPA: /baʊ.əlz/ [General-American] Audio: En-us-bowels.ogg
Rhymes: -aʊəlz Head templates: {{head|en|noun form}} bowels
  1. plural of bowel Tags: form-of, plural Form of: bowel
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          "text": "down in the bowels of the Earth",
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          "text": "O momentary grace of mortal men, / Which we more hunt for than the grace of God! / Who builds his hopes in air of your good looks, / Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast, / Ready, with every nod, to tumble down / Into the fatal bowels of the deep.",
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          "text": "Here we cannot suppress a pious Wish, that all Quarrels were to be decided by those Weapons only, with which Nature, knowing what is proper for us, hath supplied us; and that cold Iron was to be used in digging no Bowels, but those of the Earth.",
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          "text": "At length, when the last pint is casked, and all is cool, then the great hatchways are unsealed, the bowels of the ship are thrown open, and down go the casks to their final rest in the sea.",
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          "text": "The station was half deserted, half rowdy, several fellows were drunk, shouting and crowing. Down there in the bowels of London, after midnight, everything seemed horrible and unnatural.",
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          "text": "Some say the plague was brought by Hattie;\nThere was talk of a hangin’, too.\nBut the talk got shackled by the howls and the cackles\nFrom the bowels of the Black bayou.",
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          "text": "O momentary grace of mortal men, / Which we more hunt for than the grace of God! / Who builds his hopes in air of your good looks, / Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast, / Ready, with every nod, to tumble down / Into the fatal bowels of the deep.",
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          "text": "Here we cannot suppress a pious Wish, that all Quarrels were to be decided by those Weapons only, with which Nature, knowing what is proper for us, hath supplied us; and that cold Iron was to be used in digging no Bowels, but those of the Earth.",
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          "text": "Have you no Bovvels, no Tenderneſs, my dear Lucy, to ſee a Huſband in theſe Circumſtances?",
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        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "form-of",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/baʊ.əlz/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "En-us-bowels.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/fb/En-us-bowels.ogg/En-us-bowels.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fb/En-us-bowels.ogg"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-aʊəlz"
    }
  ],
  "word": "bowels"
}

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