FOREHEAD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does forehead mean? 

• FOREHEAD (noun)
  The noun FOREHEAD has 2 senses:

1. the part of the face above the eyes

2. the large cranial bone forming the front part of the cranium: includes the upper part of the orbits

  Familiarity information: FOREHEAD used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FOREHEAD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The part of the face above the eyes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

brow; forehead

Hypernyms ("forehead" is a kind of...):

feature; lineament (the characteristic parts of a person's face: eyes and nose and mouth and chin)

Meronyms (parts of "forehead"):

crinion; trichion (point where the hairline meets the midpoint of the forehead)

Holonyms ("forehead" is a part of...):

face; human face (the front of the human head from the forehead to the chin and ear to ear)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The large cranial bone forming the front part of the cranium: includes the upper part of the orbits

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

forehead; frontal bone; os frontale

Hypernyms ("forehead" is a kind of...):

membrane bone (any bone that develops within membranous tissue without previous cartilage formation; e.g. the clavicle and bones of the skull)

Meronyms (parts of "forehead"):

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)

frontal eminence (either prominence of the frontal bone above each orbit)

Holonyms ("forehead" is a part of...):

braincase; brainpan; cranium (the part of the skull that encloses the brain)

 Context examples 

The sweat was standing on my forehead, and I could feel it trickling down my nose.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Mrs. Harker grew ghastly white, so that the scar on her forehead seemed to burn, but she folded her hands meekly and looked up in prayer.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

A shock of very bright red hair grew low over his eyes and forehead.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

His forehead, which pressed upon the near edge of the plate, tilted the plate up against his hair at an angle of forty-five degrees.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

“But I mean, boy,” resuming his gravity, “what do you consider me in this respect?” touching his forehead.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It is characterized by physical abnormalities of the fingers and/or toes (extra fingers and/ or toes, fusion of the fingers and/or toes), large size head with prominent forehead and hypertelorism.

(Greig Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

An artery originating from the ophthalmic artery with many branches that supply numerous areas including the lacrimal gland, eyelids and forehead.

(Lacrimal Artery, NCI Thesaurus)

The beard, forehead hair and whiskers protect the face.

(German Wirehaired Pointer, NCI Thesaurus)

A skeletal deformity characterized by an unusually prominent forehead.

(Frontal Bossing, NCI Thesaurus)

Damage to CNS motor pathways from the cerebral cortex to the facial nuclei in the pons leads to facial weakness that generally spares the forehead muscles.

(Facial Nerve Paralysis, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)