HEAD OF HAIR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does head of hair mean? 

• HEAD OF HAIR (noun)
  The noun HEAD OF HAIR has 1 sense:

1. growth of hair covering the scalp of a human being

  Familiarity information: HEAD OF HAIR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HEAD OF HAIR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Growth of hair covering the scalp of a human being

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

head of hair; mane

Hypernyms ("head of hair" is a kind of...):

hair (a covering for the body (or parts of it) consisting of a dense growth of threadlike structures (as on the human head); helps to prevent heat loss)

Holonyms ("head of hair" is a part of...):

homo; human; human being; man (any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae characterized by superior intelligence, articulate speech, and erect carriage)

 Context examples 

‘In the case of another,’ said he, ‘the objection might be fatal, but we must stretch a point in favour of a man with such a head of hair as yours.’

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

And then she had such a fine head of hair; raven-black and so becomingly arranged: a crown of thick plaits behind, and in front the longest, the glossiest curls I ever saw.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I am sure, when I took my leave, and Traddles was coming out to walk with me to the coffee-house, I thought I had never seen an obstinate head of hair, or any other head of hair, rolling about in such a shower of kisses.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Then with a red head of hair, and an appropriate dress, I took my station in the business part of the city, ostensibly as a match-seller but really as a beggar.

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

He was a sober, steady-looking young man of retiring manners, with a comic head of hair, and eyes that were rather wide open; and he got into an obscure corner so soon, that I had some difficulty in making him out.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)