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facial hair

facial hair noun: hair on, or from, the face of a human, such as the eyebrows, beard or moustache.

Noun

facial hair (usually uncountable, plural facial hairs)

  1. (usually) Hair on, or from, the face of a human, such as the eyebrows, beard or moustache.
    • Shaving gear? The man had a beard—or he had one the last time Marianne had seen him. And yet there were flecks of shaving foam and facial hair in the sink.1988 July, Cathy Gillen Thacker, chapter 14, in Fatal Amusement (Harlequin Intrigue), Toronto, Ont.: Harlequin Books, →ISBN, page 211
    • Her dark, arched eyebrows and soft facial hair complement the membranous leaves behind her.1995 October 26, “Accent on Women's Art Latinas at two...”, in The Denver Post
    Synonyms:
    face pubes
  2. (usually) Hair on, or from, the face of an animal.
  3. (countable, rare, usually) A single hair on, or from, the face.
    • Wielding a cotton bud like a miniature police truncheon, she pointed to one small black hair I’d never noticed sprouting from my chin. It looked, in the magnified looking glass, like a sequoia tree. / ‘Where the hell did that come from?’ / ‘It’s normal as we age that . . .’ / ‘Would you stop with...1998, Kathy Lette, “Send In the Crones”, in Altar Ego, London: Picador, →ISBN, part 1 (The Wedding), page 45
    • This was the only foreign hair, a facial hair, recovered from the victim’s body, and, at that stage of the investigation, the hair evidence seemed pretty meager. Nevertheless, the facial hair would ultimately take a central role in the investigation and the fact that the victim’s pubic hairs were...2001, Richard E. Bisbing, “Finding Trace Evidence”, in Max M. Houck, editor, Mute Witnesses: Trace Evidence Analysis, London; San Diego, Calif.: Academic Press, →ISBN, pages 93–94

facial hair meaning in Tamil and Vietnamese

facial hair in Tamil

மீசை, தாடி முதலிய முகமுடி

facial hair in Vietnamese

hair on the face of a human
lông mặt

Examples of facial hair in a sentence

  • The Mbaya of the Amazon remove all facial hair, including eyelashes and eyebrows, and sneer at full-browed whites as "ostrich-brothers".2000, Daniel McNeill, The Face: A Natural History, page 198:
  • Some tribes also practiced nose piercing, and men typically removed their eyelashes, eyebrows and facial hair through plucking.2004, Mark Busby, The Southwest, page 152:
  • Because women naturally do not have a great deal of hair on their faces, it is considered a sign of femininity to have as little facial hair (except for eyebrows and eyelashes) as possible2012, Margo DeMello, Faces Around the World: A Cultural Encyclopedia of the Human Face, page 134:
  • This was the only foreign hair, a facial hair, recovered from the victim’s body, and, at that stage of the investigation, the hair evidence seemed pretty meager.2001, Richard E. Bisbing, “Finding Trace Evidence”, in Max M. Houck, editor, Mute Witnesses: Trace Evidence Analysis, London; San Diego...

Synonyms of facial hair

Forms of facial hair

pluralfacial hairs

Origin of facial hair

From facial + hair. First use appears c. 1830, in the Morning Herald.

Questions about facial hair

What does facial hair mean?
Facial hair means hair on, or from, the face of a human, such as the eyebrows, beard or moustache.
What is facial hair in Tamil?
Facial hair in Tamil is மீசை, தாடி முதலிய முகமுடி. See Facial hair meaning in Tamil.
How do you use facial hair in a sentence?
The Mbaya of the Amazon remove all facial hair, including eyelashes and eyebrows, and sneer at full-browed whites as "ostrich-brothers".
What part of speech is facial hair?
Facial hair is a noun.
What is the plural of facial hair?
The plural of facial hair is facial hairs.

Words near facial hair in the dictionary

  1. facial discs
  2. facial expression
  3. facial expressions
  4. facial feature
  5. facial features
  6. facial hair
  7. facial hairs
  8. facial mask
  9. facial masks
  10. facial nerve
  11. facial nerves

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: facial hair (page history and authors); facial hair (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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