toenoun [ C ]
uk/təʊ/us/toʊ/A2 any of the five separate parts at the end of the foot:
your big toe (= your largest toe)
your little toe (= your smallest toe)
I stubbed (= hit) my toe on the edge of the bed.
the part of a sock, shoe, or other foot covering that goes over the toes
More examples
- My toes are freezing.
- He trod on my toe.
- These shoes hurt my toes.
- He learned to paint with his toes.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
The legs & feet of non-human animals
- claw
- cloven
- foot
- forefoot
- foreleg
- hock
- hoof
- hooves
- limb
- member
- pad
- paw
- shank
- sucker
- talon
- trotter
- web
- web-footed
- webbed
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The foot
Shoes
Idiom(s)
on your toes
step/tread on sb's toes
toeverb
uk/təʊ/us/toʊ/toe the line
C2 to do what you are ordered or expected to do:
Ministers who wouldn't toe the party line were swiftly got rid of.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Custom, tradition & conformity
- apple pie
- as American as apple pie idiom 1
- backward-looking
- backwards
- be (like) sheep idiom
- blend into the scenery idiom
- cue
- fashion
- folk
- folk memory
- folklore
- follow the crowd idiom
- non-traditional
- nonconformist
- norm
- orthodoxy
- patrimony
- reactionary
- unorthodox
- zeitgeist
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