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Forehead Common

Origin: Germanic Old English prefix

Forehead has 3 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

the part of the face above the eyes

"She wiped a bead of sweat from her forehead after running up the hill."

2

the large cranial bone forming the front part of the cranium: includes the upper part of the orbits

"The surgeon carefully cleaned the area around his forehead before making an incision near the upper orbit."

3

The part of the face above the eyebrows and below the hairline.

"She wiped a bead of sweat from her forehead after running up the steep hill."

Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
feature membrane bone
Rhyming Words
yead read lead mead pead head bead sead dead glead tread oread aread ahead knead blead dread stead plead snead
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