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forehead definition

fore·head (fôr′ed′, -hed′; fär′-; -id)

noun

  1. the part of the face between the eyebrows and the line where the hair normally begins
  2. Old Poet. the front part of anything

Etymology: ME forhed < OE forheafod: see fore- & head

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forehead Synonyms

forehead

n.

brow, front, aspect, visage, countenance, temples.


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forehead Usage Examples

Possessives

  • person: Imagine there is a triangle on the other person's forehead.

Converse of object

  • wrinkle: The wedge shaped face with the wrinkled forehead are also peculiar to the breed.

Adjective modifier

  • bulbous: Northern bottlenose whales are easily identifiable by their bulbous foreheads and can grow to eight meters in length.

Modifies a noun

  • vein: Pulsations in forehead veins realizes the impact few people who.

Noun used with modifier

  • thy: A dream; yet still the radiant Infant's kiss Burns on thy forehead as a seal of fire!
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forehead quotes

He tapped his forehead.'These little grey cells. It is up to themöas you say over here.'

-Christie, Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa ne¤  e Miller

There was a little girl Who had a little curl Right in the middle of her forehead; And when she was good She was very, very good, But when she was bad, she was horrid.

-Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Weep no more, woeful shepherds, weep no more, For Lycidas your sorrow is not dead, Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor, So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new spangled ore, Flames in the forehead of the morning sky: So Lycidas sunk low, but mounted high, Through the dear might of Him that walked the waves.

-Milton,John

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