Dictionary

knee ache en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /niˌeɪk/

Etymology

From knee + ache.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) A pain in the knee, often caused by joint pain.
   • She was refusing to go to school. She had a sore throat, she said, or a headache, or a knee ache. Normally, I would panic at the slightest hint of illness — I was perpetually on the lookout for signs of leukaemia — but since she'd turned 10, becoming older than Ellie was when she died, I’d calmed down a lot. 2006, Lindsay Nicholson, chapter 10, in Living on the Seabed: A Memoir of Love, Life and Survival, Vermilion London, page 230:
   • Been gone for a bit. Three days ago, I awoke with a knee ache like I've never experienced before. The knee ache turned into surgery at midnight. While I was being prepped for surgery by the doctors, I asked two questions ... 2011, Candance Weimer, When the World Dropped in On Me, DriverWorks Ink, page 73:
   • If I happen to be sitting in close proximity to the patient's stump, it is conceivable that he might trace the location of his pain to my knee or my foot. Is it then correct to say that he experiences a knee ache in my knee? 1991 March 14, F. Gonzalez-Crussi, chapter 1, in The Five Senses, Vintage Books, page 8:

Forms

Hypernyms

gonalgia · fibromyalgia · melalgia

Translations (2)

fr mal au genou (pain in the knee) · fr maux de genou (pain in the knee)