VISAGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does visage mean? 

• VISAGE (noun)
  The noun VISAGE has 2 senses:

1. the human face ('kisser' and 'smiler' and 'mug' are informal terms for 'face' and 'phiz' is British)

2. the appearance conveyed by a person's face

  Familiarity information: VISAGE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VISAGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The human face ('kisser' and 'smiler' and 'mug' are informal terms for 'face' and 'phiz' is British)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

countenance; kisser; mug; phiz; physiognomy; smiler; visage

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

face; human face (the front of the human head from the forehead to the chin and ear to ear)

Domain region:

Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)

Domain usage:

colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)

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

pudding-face; pudding face (a large fat human face)

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

human head (the head of a human being)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The appearance conveyed by a person's face

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

countenance; visage

Context example:

a stern visage

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

appearance; visual aspect (outward or visible aspect of a person or thing)

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

aspect; expression; face; facial expression; look (the feelings expressed on a person's face)

poker face (a face without any interpretable expression (as that of a good poker player))

 Context examples 

Be this as it may, I well remember the tremendous visages with which we used to go to church, and the changed air of the place.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I thought you would be revolted, Jane, when you saw my arm, and my cicatrised visage.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I travelled only at night, fearful of encountering the visage of a human being.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

“Yes, I have,” she answered slowly, and I could have laughed aloud at his crestfallen visage.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

His visage was meagre, his hair lank and thin, and his voice hollow.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

And, certes, had the two visages alone been seen, and the stranger been asked which were the more likely to belong to the bold warrior whose name was loved by the roughest soldiery of Europe, he had assuredly selected the lady's.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In the mean time they formed up in a line of sentinels, presenting under their row of white hats every type of fighting face, from the fresh boyish countenances of Tom Belcher, Jones, and the other younger recruits, to the scarred and mutilated visages of the veteran bruisers.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mr. Creakle cuts a joke before he beats him, and we laugh at it,—miserable little dogs, we laugh, with our visages as white as ashes, and our hearts sinking into our boots.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

This I felt sure was Eliza, though I could trace little resemblance to her former self in that elongated and colourless visage.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The physician came and prescribed medicines, and the old woman prepared them for me; but utter carelessness was visible in the first, and the expression of brutality was strongly marked in the visage of the second.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)