belt
/belt/
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Translation
A long strip of leather or cloth that you wear around your waist.
Word origin
From Old English belt, a band worn around the body, from Latin balteus.
- Origin
- Old English
- Root
- belt
Grammar
Gender
Pluralbelts
Examples
trousers.
"Belt" is the strip worn around the waist.
sizes.
"Belts" is the plural, meaning more than one belt.
.
Here "belt" is the one thing keeping the skirt in place.
Used in
Stories
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