Word.ws English Dictionary

glabella

/ɡləˈbɛlə/

glabella noun: the space between the eyebrows and above the nose.

glabella: the space between the eyebrows and above the nose
Image: JonRichfield, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

Noun

glabella (plural glabellas or glabellae)

  1. The space between the eyebrows and above the nose.
    • The good Doctor had perceptibly aged since last year but was as sturdy and square-shaped as ever with his well-padded shoulders, square chin, square nostrils, leonine glabella, and rectangular brush of grizzled hair that had something topiary about it.1957 March 7, Vladimir Nabokov, chapter 6.7, in Pnin, Heinemann, page 156
    Synonyms:
    mesophryon
  2. The axial protuberance on the cephalon of certain arthropods (especially trilobites).

glabella meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Arabic and Vietnamese

glabella in Tamil

நெற்றி புடைப்பு, நெற்றிமய மேடு

glabella in Bengali

ভ্রুর মাঝের মসৃণ স্থান

glabella in Arabic

anatomy: space
مَقْطَب maqṭab, بُلْجَة bulja

glabella in Vietnamese

anatomy: space
ấn đường

Synonyms of glabella

Forms of glabella

pluralglabellas
pluralglabellae

Origin of glabella

From Latin glaber (“smooth, hairless, bald”).

Words formed from glabella

Questions about glabella

What does glabella mean?
Glabella means the space between the eyebrows and above the nose.
What is glabella in Tamil?
Glabella in Tamil is நெற்றி புடைப்பு, நெற்றிமய மேடு. See Glabella meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is glabella?
Glabella is a noun.
How do you pronounce glabella?
Glabella is pronounced /ɡləˈbɛlə/ (US).
What is the plural of glabella?
The plural of glabella is glabellas.

Words near glabella in the dictionary

  1. gl
  2. GL2U
  3. GLA
  4. GLAAD
  5. Glab
  6. glabella
  7. glabellae
  8. glabellar
  9. glabellas
  10. glabellum
  11. Glabicki

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: glabella (page history and authors); glabella (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); glabella (Bengali 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.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Yangolin-glabella.wav.

Cite this entry: “glabella.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/glabella. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.