eyelid

noun

EYE-lid/ˈaɪ.lɪd/

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1 meaning of eyelid

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nouncountable
A thin fold of skin that covers and moves over the eye.
The doctor gently lifted the patient's eyelid to examine the pupil.
By late evening her eyelids felt heavy with exhaustion.
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Origin

From Middle English eyelidd, from an unrecorded Old English *ēaghlid, from Proto-West Germanic *augahlid, equivalent to "eye" plus "lid." It is related to Dutch ooglid and German Augenlid, and it largely replaced the borrowed Middle English word palpebre (from Latin palpebra).