MOUSTACHE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does moustache mean? 

• MOUSTACHE (noun)
  The noun MOUSTACHE has 1 sense:

1. an unshaved growth of hair on the upper lip

  Familiarity information: MOUSTACHE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MOUSTACHE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An unshaved growth of hair on the upper lip

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

moustache; mustache

Context example:

he looked younger after he shaved off his mustache

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

facial hair (hair on the face (especially on the face of a man))

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

soup-strainer; toothbrush (slang for a mustache)

handle-bars; moustachio; mustachio (a large bushy moustache (with hair growing sometimes down the sides of the mouth))

walrus moustache; walrus mustache (a bushy droopy mustache)

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

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

 Context examples 

His black moustache lifted and a white fang twinkled in a sneer.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

A disorder characterized by the presence of excess hair growth in women in anatomic sites where growth is considered to be a secondary male characteristic and under androgen control (beard, moustache, chest, abdomen).

(Hirsutism, NCI Thesaurus/CTCAE)

His fierce hawk-like face was clean shaven like that of a priest, save for a long thin wisp of white moustache which drooped down half way to his shoulder.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He was a middle-sized, strongly built man—square jaw, thick neck, moustache, a mask over his eyes.

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

The man whom I found myself facing was a well-built, fresh-complexioned young fellow, with a frank, honest face and a slight, crisp, yellow moustache.

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

Why, Watson, even your modest moustache would have been singed.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The dog-musher wore a moustache, but the other, a taller and younger man, was smooth- shaven, his skin rosy from the pounding of his blood and the running in the frosty air.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

“The betting is three to one against him now,” said a gentleman, whose grizzled moustache showed that he was an officer of the late war.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

About five ft. seven in. in height; strongly built, sallow complexion, black hair, a little bald in the centre, bushy, black side-whiskers and moustache; tinted glasses, slight infirmity of speech.

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