SHAVEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does shaven mean? 

• SHAVEN (adjective)
  The adjective SHAVEN has 1 sense:

1. having the beard or hair cut off close to the skin

  Familiarity information: SHAVEN used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHAVEN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having the beard or hair cut off close to the skin

Synonyms:

shaved; shaven

Similar:

beardless; whiskerless (having no beard)

clean-shaven; smooth-shaven; well-shaven (closely shaved recently)

Antonym:

unshaven (not shaved)

 Context examples 

He is a big, powerful chap, clean-shaven, and very swarthy— something like Aldridge, who helped us in the bogus laundry affair.

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

He was flaxen-haired and handsome, in a washed-out negative fashion, with frightened blue eyes, and a clean-shaven face, with a weak, sensitive mouth.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, 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)

I should say that only a clean-shaven man could have smoked this.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He was a small, wiry, sunburnt man, clean-shaven, with a sharp face and alert manner.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, 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)

But The Hornet was run by a set of clean-shaven, strapping young men, frank buccaneers who robbed everything and everybody, not excepting one another.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

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)

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)

It seemed, rather, a frank and open countenance, which frankness or openness was enhanced by the fact that he was smooth-shaven.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)