Usually means: Muscular organ for taste, speech.
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We found 57 dictionaries that define the word tongue:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. tongue: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Tongue, tongue: Merriam-Webster
  3. tongue: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. tongue: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. tongue: Collins English Dictionary
  6. tongue: Vocabulary.com
  7. Tongue, tongue: Wordnik
  8. tongue: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Tongue (lower surface), Tongue, Tongue, Tongue, Tongue, Tongue, Tongue, Tongue: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  10. tongue: Wiktionary
  11. tongue: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  12. tongue: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  13. tongue: Infoplease Dictionary
  14. tongue: Dictionary.com
  15. tongue: Online Etymology Dictionary
  16. tongue: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  17. The Tongue, Tongue (Knights Hospitaller), Tongue (disambiguation), Tongue (food), Tongue (foodstuff), Tongue (footwear), Tongue (song), Tongue: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  18. Tongue: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  19. tongue: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  20. tongue: Rhymezone
  21. tongue: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. tongue: FreeDictionary.org
  23. tongue: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. tongue, the tongue: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. tongue: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. tongue: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary

Art (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Body Piercing Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Body Piercing Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Natural Magick (No longer online)
  5. Tongue: Dictionary of Symbolism

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. tongue, the tongue: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tongue, the tongue: Encyclopedia

Medicine (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. tongue: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Tongue: Merck Manuals
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Dental and Oral Health Glossary (No longer online)
  6. Health and Wellness Dictionary (No longer online)
  7. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  8. Tongue: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  9. tongue: Medical Etymology Anatomy
  10. tongue: Medical dictionary
  11. Tongue: Drug Medical Dictionary
  12. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)
  13. Tongue: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. tongue, the tongue: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tongue: LITTLE EXPLORERS(TM) Picture Dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. tongue, tongue: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. tongue: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Canoe Terminology (No longer online)

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  2. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See tongued as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The flexible muscular organ in the mouth that is used to move food around, for tasting and that is moved into various positions to modify the flow of air from the lungs in order to produce different sounds in speech.
noun:  (countable, uncountable) Such an organ, as taken from animals and used for food (especially from cows).
noun:  Any similar organ, such as the lingual ribbon, or odontophore, of a mollusk; the proboscis of a moth or butterfly; or the lingua of an insect.
noun:  (metonymically) A language.
noun:  (obsolete, synecdochically) The speakers of a language, collectively.
noun:  (obsolete) A voice, (the distinctive sound of a person's speech); accent (distinctive manner of pronouncing a language).
noun:  A manner of speaking, often habitually.
noun:  (synecdochically, usually in the plural) A person speaking in a specified manner.
noun:  The power of articulate utterance; speech generally.
noun:  (obsolete) Discourse; the fluency of speech or expression.
noun:  (obsolete, uncountable) Discourse; fluency of speech or expression.
noun:  (obsolete) Honorable discourse; eulogy.
noun:  (religion, often in the plural) Glossolalia.
noun:  In a shoe, the flap of material that goes between the laces and the foot (so called because it resembles a tongue in the mouth).
noun:  Any large or long physical protrusion on an automotive or machine part or any other part that fits into a long groove on another part.
noun:  A projection, or slender appendage or fixture.
noun:  A long, narrow strip of land, projecting from the mainland into a sea or lake.
noun:  The pole of a towed or drawn vehicle or farm implement (e.g., trailer, cart, plow, harrow), by which it is pulled; for example, the pole of an ox cart, to the end of which the oxen are yoked.
noun:  The clapper of a bell.
noun:  (figuratively) An individual point of flame from a fire.
noun:  A small sole (type of fish).
noun:  (nautical) A short piece of rope spliced into the upper part of standing backstays, etc.; also, the upper main piece of a mast composed of several pieces.
noun:  (music) A reed.
noun:  (geology) A division of formation; A layer or member of a formation that pinches out in one direction.
verb:  (music, ambitransitive) On a wind instrument, to articulate a note by starting the air with a tap of the tongue, as though by speaking a 'd' or 't' sound (alveolar plosive).
verb:  (slang, vulgar, transitive) To manipulate with the tongue, as in kissing or oral sex; to perform cunnilingus or anilingus on.
verb:  To protrude in relatively long, narrow sections.
verb:  To join by means of a tongue and groove.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To talk; to prate.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To speak; to utter.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To chide; to scold.
noun:  A village by the Kyle of Tongue in Sutherland, Highland council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NC5956).
noun:  A surname.

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