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# collarbone

noun (a collarbone, collarbones)

«collarbone» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

The collarbone is one of two long thin bones at the front of your body, running from the top of your chest to each shoulder. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/collarbone/#m1)

### In the lessons

In science lessons about the skeleton, the collarbone (clavicle) joins the arm to the body. In sport and safety, a fall from a bike or horse onto the shoulder can break a collarbone, a common children's injury. Phrases: break your collarbone, a broken collarbone.

### Examples

- You can feel your collarbone just below your neck. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/collarbone/#x1)
- He broke his collarbone when he fell off his bike. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/collarbone/#x2)
- The doctor put her arm in a sling for her collarbone. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/collarbone/#x3)
- Each person has two collarbones. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/collarbone/#x4)
- The scientific name for the collarbone is the clavicle. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/collarbone/#x5)
- The necklace rested on her collarbone. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/collarbone/#x6)

### Note

Countable: a collarbone, collarbones. Usually one word, sometimes «collar bone». It is called this because it lies where a shirt collar sits.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «collarbone» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/collarbone/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«collarbone» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/collarbone.html) on Mova free.