collarbone

See also: collar-bone and collar bone

English

Alternative forms

• collar-bone
• collar bone

Etymology

From Middle English colar bane; equivalent to collar +‎ bone.

Noun

collarbone (plural collarbones)

1. The bone joining the shoulder and the breastbone.
   • 2004, David Mitchell, “Half-Lives: The First Luisa Rey Mystery”, in Cloud Atlas, →ISBN, page 120:

     The pragmatic journalist’s daughter would, and did, explain these “memories” as the work of an imagination hypersensitized by her father’s recent death, but a detail in one letter will not be dismissed. Robert Frobisher mentions a comet-shaped birthmark between his shoulder blade and collarbone.

Synonyms

• clavicle

Derived terms

• collarboned

Translations

clavicle — see clavicle