Dictionary

collarbone en · NOUN

Etymology

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

Meanings

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

Forms

Deriveds

collarboned

Synonyms

clavicle