# eyelid

Pronunciation: say "EYE-lid" /ˈaɪ.lɪd/

## Noun

1. A thin fold of skin that covers and moves over the eye.
   - Simple: A thin fold of skin that covers and protects the eye.
   - _The doctor gently lifted the patient's eyelid to examine the pupil._
   - _By late evening her eyelids felt heavy with exhaustion._

## 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).

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/eyelid (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).