- the part of the body below the chest synonym stomach, gut
- They crawled along on their bellies.
Extra ExamplesTopics Bodyc1- The baby rolled on to her belly.
- I filled my belly with a sausage sandwich.
- She felt the child in her belly kick.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- empty
- full
- flat
- …
- pat
- rub
- scratch
- …
- bulge
- hang
- swell
- …
- in somebody’s belly
- (literary) the round or curved part of an object
- the belly of a ship
- -bellied(in adjectives) having the type of belly mentioned
- swollen-bellied
- round-bellied
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Word OriginOld English belig ‘bag’, of Germanic origin, from a base meaning ‘swell, be inflated’.
Idioms
See belly in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionaryfire in the/your belly
- a very strong desire to achieve something
- You need fire in your belly if you want to make it in the music business.
go belly up
- (informal) to fail completely
- Last year the business went belly up after one of the partners resigned.
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