arête — meaning in English

English meaning

• arete noun excellence, goodness; virtue.
• bone noun One of the hard, calcium-rich pieces that make up the skeleton of humans and most animals.
• edge noun The outer boundary or line where something ends.

Senses

arête is used for these senses in English:

• arête (geology) A very thin ridge of rock.
• bone A bone of a fish; a fishbone.
• edge (geometry) A one-dimensional face of a polytope. In particular, the joining line between two vertices of a polygon; the place where two faces of a polyhedron meet.
• fishbone A bone from a fish.

arete — full definition

1. noun excellence, goodness; virtue.
2. noun The proper state or condition for a human.

bone — full definition

1. noun One of the hard, calcium-rich pieces that make up the skeleton of humans and most animals.
2. noun An off-white color resembling the shade of bone.
3. verb To remove the bones from meat or fish before cooking.

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