MUSTACHE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mustache mean? 

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

1. an unshaved growth of hair on the upper lip

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MUSTACHE (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 ("mustache" 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 "mustache"):

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 ("mustache" is a part of...):

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

 Context examples 

A mustache and beard add to the squaring off of the muzzle.

(Black Russian Terrier, NCI Thesaurus)

The Petit Basset Griffon Vendeen is a small dog with an unkempt, wiry double coat with shaggy eyebrows, beard and mustache.

(Petit Basset Griffon Vendeen, NCI Thesaurus)

The man was dark-eyed and smooth-shaven all except his mustache, which was so iced up as to hide his mouth.

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

She glanced down at him with a new thought in her mind, but he was lying with his hat half over his face, as if for shade, and his mustache hid his mouth.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The Bouviers Des Flandres is a powerful dog with a massive and heavily-coated head with a thick beard and mustache and shaggy eyebrows.

(Bouviers Des Flandres, NCI Thesaurus)

The Miniature Schnauzer is a small, squarely-proportioned dog with a long head, bushy beard, mustache and eyebrows.

(Miniature Schnauzer, NCI Thesaurus)

Briards are generally black, gray, or tawny and have a shaggy beard, eyebrows and mustache.

(Briard, NCI Thesaurus)

A knock and an answer opened it, and Martin found himself shaking hands with Kreis, a handsome brunette man, with dazzling white teeth, a drooping black mustache, and large, flashing black eyes.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Charles was a middle-aged, lightish-colored man, with weak and watery eyes and a mustache that twisted fiercely and vigorously up, giving the lie to the limply drooping lip it concealed.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

His eyes blue, his hair yellow, he has a little mustache which is yellow. His name is John Jones.

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