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hand
What does hand mean?
hand (noun): the (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.
Definition: Princeton WordNet 3.1.
How do you use hand in a sentence?
- He had the hands of a surgeon. (Princeton WordNet 3.1)
How do you pronounce hand?
/hænd/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does hand come from?
From Middle English hond, hand, from Old English hand, from Proto-West Germanic *handu, from Proto-Germanic *handuz.
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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the (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb
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