Other forms: stomachs
The stomach is the part of the body where food goes once you have swallowed it. It aches when you have eaten too much.
Strictly it is one organ, a bag of acid below the ribs, and doctors keep the word that precise. Everyday English is far looser and uses it for the whole front of the middle — lying on your stomach, a pain in the stomach. It gives English plenty of idiom, since a strong stomach means you are not easily sickened. The verb means to bear something unpleasant, as in I cannot stomach another meeting.
1nounstomachThe organ where food is digested, or the front of the body around it.~98%
“He lay on his stomach and read.”
2verbtolerateTo tolerate something unpleasant.~2%
“She could not stomach the smell.”
Shares are an estimate: a language model read 16 sentences found in the wild and placed 16 of them on a sense — a count of our sample, not a measurement of English.
Also accepted in games: belly, tummy
Stomach comes from Greek stomachos, built on stoma, a mouth. The organ was named for its opening rather than for its bulk.
Ancient Greek
στόμαχος
Latin
stomachus
Old French
estomac
Middle English
stomak
English, today
stomach
Built from
From Middle English stomak, from Old French estomac, from Latin stomachus, from Ancient Greek στόμαχος, from στόμα (“mouth”). Partially displaced native maga, whence Modern English maw.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA