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eyesocket

eyesocket is the alternative spelling of eye socket.

Meaning of eye socket

Noun

eye socket (plural eye sockets)

  1. The bony cavity which contains the eyeball and its associated muscles, vessels, and nerves. In humans, seven bones make up each bony orbit.
    • Near-synonyms: eyehole, eye-pit
  2. The entire eyehole in the face: both the bony orbit and the flesh that surrounds it.

Forms of eyesocket

pluraleyesockets

Questions about eyesocket

What is eyesocket the alternative spelling of?
Eyesocket is the alternative spelling of eye socket.

Words near eyesocket in the dictionary

  1. eyesies
  2. eyesight
  3. eyesights
  4. eyeslit
  5. eyeslits
  6. eyesocket
  7. eyesockets
  8. eyesome
  9. eyesore
  10. eyesores
  11. eyespan

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: eyesocket (page history and authors); eye socket (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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