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forehead

noun US /ˈfɔːrhed/

the part of the face above the eyes

How often you will meet it

Rank 1,362 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 13,493 times across 175,177 chapters — 0.006% of every word in the library.

What it means

noun

  1. the part of the face above the eyes also: brow
  2. the large cranial bone forming the front part of the cranium: includes the upper part of the orbits also: frontal bone, os frontale

CMU Pronouncing Dictionary · Princeton WordNet 3.1

forehead in real books

Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.

  • Black and curling, it straggled over his forehead.

    The Abandoned Room · Wadsworth Camp · Chapter 1

  • Agnes was frowning so that her whole forehead was like one huge wrinkle.

    Cornelli · Johanna Spyri · Chapter 1

  • The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid.

    The Picture of Dorian Gray · Oscar Wilde · Chapter 1

  • For half an hour I tried to pray as the beads of agony rolled down my forehead and bathed my face.

    The Red Record Tabulated Statistics · Ida B. Wells-Barnett · Chapter 1

  • And shall I, Having a path so open, and so free To my preferment, still retain your milk In my pale forehead?

    The White Devil · John Webster · Chapter 1

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