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foreheads

foreheads is the plural of forehead.

Meaning of forehead

Noun

forehead (countable and uncountable, plural foreheads)

  1. (countable) The part of the face above the eyebrows and below the hairline.
    • 'This question the Dodo could not answer without a great deal of thought, and it sat for a long time with one finger pressed upon its forehead (the position in which you usually see Shakespeare, in the pictures of him), while the rest waited in silence. At last the Dodo said, ‘everybody has won...1865, Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Macmillan
  2. (uncountable) confidence; audacity; impudence.
    • Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty;
      For in my youth I never did apply
      Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood,
      Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo
      The means of weakness and debilityc. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
  3. The upper part of a mobile phone, above the screen.

Questions about foreheads

What is foreheads the plural of?
Foreheads is the plural of forehead.

Words near foreheads in the dictionary

  1. forehead thermometer
  2. forehead thermometers
  3. foreheaded
  4. foreheadedness
  5. foreheadless
  6. foreheads
  7. forehear
  8. foreheard
  9. forehearing
  10. forehears
  11. forehearth

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