forehead

fore·head  (fôrhd, -d, fr-)

n.

1. The part of the face between the eyebrows, the normal hairline, and the temples.

2. The front part of something.

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[Middle English forhed, from Old English forhafod : for-, fore- + hafod, head; see head.]

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forehead [ˈfɒrɪd ˈfɔːˌhɛd]

n

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Anatomy) the part of the face between the natural hairline and the eyes, formed skeletally by the frontal bone of the skull; brow Related adj frontal

[Old English forhēafod; related to Old Frisian forhāfd, Middle Low German vorhōved]

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Forehead 

See Also: FACE(S)

1. The artery in his forehead bulged like a snake —Richard Ford
2. Brow like masonry —Ted Hughes
3. Forehead..as wrinkled as a washboard —Harvey Swados
4. Forehead like a bright new moon —Arabian Nights
5. (A slim girl with) a forehead which was shiny and protuberant, like a Bartlett pear —George Ade
6. Forehead, with wrinkles like lines drawn all over it —Ivan Turgenev
7. Her forehead shines like the gleam of morning —Arabian Nights
8. A high forehead with a soft vein running indirectly down the middle like an aimless trickle of water on a windowpane —John Hersey
9. His brows became contorted with thick frowns, like a bull’s forehead —V. S. Pritchett
10. His brow swells out over his face like an eroded riverbank —T. Coraghessan Boyle
11. His forehead bulged [with fury] as if he were horned —Jonathan Valin

    See Also: ANGER

12. His forehead rose like a gleaming dome towards the crown of his bald head —Alexander Solzhenitsyn
13. A pair of thin horizontal lines, like furrows in a meadow of snow, appeared on her forehead —Bill Pronzini
14. The skin [on a character’s forehead] was wrinkled into long horizontal lines, like lines of inquiry —Dan Jacobson

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	forehead - the part of the face above the eyes brow face, 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" feature, lineament - the characteristic parts of a person's face: eyes and nose and mouth and chin; "an expression of pleasure crossed his features"; "his lineaments were very regular" crinion, trichion - point where the hairline meets the midpoint of the forehead
	2.	forehead - the large cranial bone forming the front part of the cranium: includes the upper part of the orbits frontal bone, os frontale glabella, 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 braincase, brainpan, cranium - the part of the skull that encloses the brain frontal eminence - either prominence of the frontal bone above each orbit

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forehead

noun brow, temple He kissed her forehead.

Related words
adjective frontal

Translations

forehead [ˈfɒrɪd] N → frente f

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forehead [ˈfɒrɪd ˈfɔː^rhɛd] n → front m

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forehead

n → Stirn f

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forehead [ˈfɔːˌhɛd] n → fronte f

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forehead

n forehead [ˈforid, ˈfoː(r)hed]

the part of the face above the eyebrows and below the hairline; the brow Her hair covers her forehead. voorkop جَبْهَه، جَبين чело čelo pande die Stirn μέτωπο frente otsaesine پیشانی otsa front מֵצָח čelo homlok dahi enni fronte 額 이마 kakta piere dahi voorhoofd panne czoło testa frunte лоб čelo čelo čelo panna หน้าผาก alın 額 лоб, чоло پیشانی trán 额

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forehead → جبهة čelo pande Stirn μέτωπο frente otsa front čelo fronte 額 이마 voorhoofd panne czoło testa лоб panna หน้าผาก alın trán 前额