🇬🇧🇪🇸 bile - bilis : English Lesson

Meaning of "bile" ("bilis"), detailed definition, and a short video lesson below.

Bile is a yellow‑green, bitter liquid made by your liver that is stored in a tiny bag called the gallbladder. When you eat foods with fat, bile is squirted into your small intestine to help break the fat into tiny pieces so your body can digest it and use it for energy.

Watch and listen to this English flashcard to understand the word in more detail, with an easy example sentence.

When I learned about bile at school, I told Mom, “I have built‑in dish soap for my dinner!”

I told my little cousin that bile is like secret green spit from the liver that helps melt the fat in his chicken nuggets.

If you could look inside your small intestine, you’d see bile doing a victory dance on top of your french fries’ fat.

My brain: “I love butter!” My bile: “Good, I love breaking butter into tiny pieces.”

Bile is stored in a small organ called the gallbladder and helps break big blobs of fat into tiny droplets so your body can digest them more easily.

After the greasy meal, she doubled over; a doctor showed on a small screen a yellow-green bile moving from liver into the intestine. Bile flooded the gut, bathing the fat, breaking it apart like soap. Bile mixed, bile spun, bile eased the pain. She sighed, relieved as the bile did its silent work and her stomach settled.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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