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fore·head
(fôr′hĕd′, -ĭd, fŏr′-)n.
1. The part of the face between the eyebrows, the normal hairline, and the temples.
2. The front part of something.
[Middle English forhed, from Old English forhēafod : for-, fore- + hēafod, head; see head.]
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forehead
(ˈfɒrɪd; ˈfɔːˌhɛd)n
(Anatomy) the part of the face between the natural hairline and the eyes, formed skeletally by the frontal bone of the skull; brow.
[Old English forhēafod; related to Old Frisian forhāfd, Middle Low German vorhōved]
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fore•head
(ˈfɔr ɪd, ˈfɒr-; ˈfɔrˌhɛd, ˈfɒr-)n.
1. the part of the face above the eyebrows; brow.
2. the fore or front part of something.
[before 1000]
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Forehead
See Also: FACE(S)
- The artery in his forehead bulged like a snake —Richard Ford
- Brow like masonry —Ted Hughes
- Forehead..as wrinkled as a washboard —Harvey Swados
- Forehead like a bright new moon —Arabian Nights
- (A slim girl with) a forehead which was shiny and protuberant, like a Bartlett pear —George Ade
- Forehead, with wrinkles like lines drawn all over it —Ivan Turgenev
- Her forehead shines like the gleam of morning —Arabian Nights
- A high forehead with a soft vein running indirectly down the middle like an aimless trickle of water on a windowpane —John Hersey
- His brows became contorted with thick frowns, like a bull’s forehead —V. S. Pritchett
- His brow swells out over his face like an eroded riverbank —T. Coraghessan Boyle
- His forehead bulged [with fury] as if he were horned —Jonathan Valin
See Also: ANGER
- His forehead rose like a gleaming dome towards the crown of his bald head —Alexander Solzhenitsyn
- A pair of thin horizontal lines, like furrows in a meadow of snow, appeared on her forehead —Bill Pronzini
- The skin [on a character’s forehead] was wrinkled into long horizontal lines, like lines of inquiry —Dan Jacobson
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| Noun | 1. |  forehead - the part of the face above the eyesface, human face - the front of the human head from the forehead to the chin and ear to ear; "he washed his face"; "I wish I had seen the look on his face when he got the news" |
| 2. |  forehead - the large cranial bone forming the front part of the cranium: includes the upper part of the orbitsglabella, mesophyron - a smooth prominence of the frontal bone between and above the eyebrows; the most forward projecting point of the forehead in the midline at the level of the supraorbital ridges metopion - the craniometric point midway between the frontal eminences of the skull ophryon - the craniometric point in the midline of the forehead immediately above the orbits membrane bone - any bone that develops within membranous tissue without previous cartilage formation; e.g. the clavicle and bones of the skull frontal eminence - either prominence of the frontal bone above each orbit |
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forehead
Related words
adjective frontal
adjective frontal
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Translations
جَبْهَةجَبْهَه، جَبين
čelo
pande
laup
otsa
čelo
homlok
dahi
enni
額
이마
piere
čelo
čelo
panna
หน้าผาก
trán
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
forehead
n → Stirn f
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
forehead
(ˈforid) , (ˈfoː(r)hed) noun the part of the face above the eyebrows and below the hairline; the brow. Her hair covers her forehead.
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.
forehead
→ جَبْهَة čelo pande Stirn μέτωπο frente otsa front čelo fronte 額 이마 voorhoofd panne czoło testa лоб panna หน้าผาก alın trán 前额Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009
fore·head
n. frente.
English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012
forehead
n frente fEnglish-Spanish/Spanish-English Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.