noun · neutral
weight
/weɪt/WEIGHT
Band 4-5speakingtask2
the amount a person or thing weighs
Examples
“My weight has gone up since I stopped cycling to school.”
“The scales showed her weight as 58 kilograms.”
“He checks his weight every week to track his progress.”
Band 8 sentence
“I've been careful with my diet and cardio because I wanted to reduce my weight before the competition.”
Collocations
- lose weight
- gain weight
- body weight
Word family
weigh verbweighing verb / nounweighty adjective
Common mistakes
My weight 60kg.→My weight is 60 kg.
I am 60 kilos weight.→I weigh 60 kilos.
Say it for a higher band
5heavy→6body weight→7+weight
Synonyms
mass
heaviness
Easily confused
weigh (verb)
“I weigh myself every morning.”
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