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say it: NAH-stril
nostril is a noun meaning "either one of the two external openings to the nasal cavity in the nose". It carries one recorded sense.
either one of the two external openings to the nasal cavity in the nose
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 nostril 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.