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say it: STUHM-uhk
stomach is a noun and verb meaning "an enlarged and muscular saclike organ of the alimentary canal; the principal organ of digestion". It carries 6 recorded senses.
an enlarged and muscular saclike organ of the alimentary canal; the principal organ of digestion
the region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and the pelvis
an inclination or liking for things involving conflict or difficulty or unpleasantness
“he had no stomach for a fight”
put up with something or somebody unpleasant
“I cannot bear his constant criticism”
“The new secretary had to endure a lot of unprofessional remarks”
“he learned to tolerate the heat”
“She stuck out two years in a miserable marriage”
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 stomach 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.