LOINS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does loins mean? 

• LOINS (noun)
  The noun LOINS has 2 senses:

1. the lower part of the abdomen just above the external genital organs

2. the region of the hips and groin and lower abdomen

  Familiarity information: LOINS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LOINS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The lower part of the abdomen just above the external genital organs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

loins; pubes; pubic region

Hypernyms ("loins" is a kind of...):

area; region (a part of an animal that has a special function or is supplied by a given artery or nerve)

Meronyms (parts of "loins"):

mons; mons pubis; mons veneris (a mound of fatty tissue covering the pubic area in women)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The region of the hips and groin and lower abdomen

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("loins" is a kind of...):

body part (any part of an organism such as an organ or extremity)

Meronyms (parts of "loins"):

groin; inguen (the crease at the junction of the inner part of the thigh with the trunk together with the adjacent region and often including the external genitals)

Holonyms ("loins" is a part of...):

body; torso; trunk (the body excluding the head and neck and limbs)

 Context examples 

In our loins are the possibilities of millions of lives.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

“He’s a fifteen-stoner from the loins upwards,” cried Dutch Sam, from his corner.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There were shoulders, legs, and loins, shaped like those of mutton, and very well dressed, but smaller than the wings of a lark.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Are we not all from Adam's loins, all with flesh and blood, and with the same mouth that must needs have food and drink?

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There have been from the loins of this very one great men and good women, and their graves make sacred the earth where alone this foulness can dwell.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

He led him into the king’s cellar, and the man bent over the huge barrels, and drank and drank till his loins hurt, and before the day was out he had emptied all the barrels.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Hot! He had not turned a hair till we came to Walcot Church; but look at his forehand; look at his loins; only see how he moves; that horse cannot go less than ten miles an hour: tie his legs and he will get on.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

A gold-embroidered belt of knighthood encircled his loins, with his arms, five roses gules on a field argent, cunningly worked upon the clasp.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Wilson stood in the position from which he had derived his nickname, his left hand and left foot well to the front, his body sloped very far back from his loins, and his guard thrown across his chest, but held well forward in a way which made him exceedingly hard to get at.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Down in the courtyard half-clad wretches, their bare limbs all mottled with blood-stains, strutted about with plumed helmets upon their heads, or with the Lady Rochefort's silken gowns girt round their loins and trailing on the ground behind them.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)