1 the area around the middle of the body between the RIBS and the hips, often narrower than the areas above and below:
He put his arm around her waist. * She was paralysed from the waist down (= in the area below her waist). * The workmen were stripped to the waist (= wearing no clothes on the top half of their bodies).
2 the part of a piece of clothing that covers the waist:
It's much too tight at the waist.
3 (-waisted) (in adjectives) having the type of waist mentioned:
a high-waisted dress
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for waist is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is waist a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, waist is tagged as noun.
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