lung
//ˈlʌŋ//
Forms
- Plural
- lungs
Definitions
1.A biological organ of vertebrates that controls breathing and oxygenates the blood.
- He died of lung cancer.
2.Capacity for exercise or exertion; breath.
- He no longer has the lungs to play long rallies like he used to.
3.That which supplies oxygen or fresh air, such as trees, parklands, forest, etc., to a place.
- He died of lung cancer.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #3351
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
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.