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say it: AN-ti-bah-dee
antibody is a noun meaning "any of a large variety of proteins normally present in the body or produced in response to an antigen which it neutralizes, thus producing an immune response". It carries one recorded sense.
any of a large variety of proteins normally present in the body or produced in response to an antigen which it neutralizes, thus producing an immune response
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for antibody come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.