HUMAN FACE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does human face mean? 

• HUMAN FACE (noun)
  The noun HUMAN FACE has 1 sense:

1. the front of the human head from the forehead to the chin and ear to ear

  Familiarity information: HUMAN FACE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HUMAN FACE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The front of the human head from the forehead to the chin and ear to ear

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

face; human face

Context example:

I wish I had seen the look on his face when he got the news

Hypernyms ("human face" is a kind of...):

external body part (any body part visible externally)

Meronyms (parts of "human face"):

jaw (the bones of the skull that frame the mouth and serve to open it; the bones that hold the teeth)

jowl (a fullness and looseness of the flesh of the lower cheek and jaw (characteristic of aging))

cheek (either side of the face below the eyes)

brow; forehead (the part of the face above the eyes)

facial muscle (any of the skeletal muscles of the face)

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

chin; mentum (the protruding part of the lower jaw)

nose; olfactory organ (the organ of smell and entrance to the respiratory tract; the prominent part of the face of man or other mammals)

facial; facial nerve; nervus facialis; seventh cranial nerve (cranial nerve that supplies facial muscles)

facial vein; vena facialis (any of several veins draining the face)

brow; eyebrow; supercilium (the arch of hair above each eye)

eye; oculus; optic (the organ of sight)

mouth (the externally visible part of the oral cavity on the face and the system of organs surrounding the opening)

beard; face fungus; whiskers (the hair growing on the lower part of a man's face)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "human face"):

countenance; kisser; mug; phiz; physiognomy; smiler; visage (the human face ('kisser' and 'smiler' and 'mug' are informal terms for 'face' and 'phiz' is British))

Holonyms ("human face" 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)

caput; head (the upper part of the human body or the front part of the body in animals; contains the face and brains)

 Context examples 

It was a human face—or at least it was far more human than any monkey's that I have ever seen.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I had never seen fear so strongly stamped upon a human face.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

He saw no human face, spoke to no human thing.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

It was a leaf-shaped sheet of glass bearing upon it a face with a halo round it, so delicately outlined, and of so perfect a tint, that it might have been indeed a human face which gazed with sad and thoughtful eyes upon the young squire.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He stood near the window, his grey silhouette thrown up against the square of dusty glass; and I have never seen such a play of evil passions, of anger, of jealousy, of disappointed greed upon a human face before.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)