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hair line

hair line is the alternative form of hairline.

Meaning of hairline

Noun

hairline (plural hairlines)

  1. The line along one's forehead where hair starts growing.
    • It's just a receding hairline — it's not like you're going bald.
  2. A very thin line in writing, drawing, or typography.
  3. (figuratively) A very thin fissure.
    • While inspecting the new house, we found a few hairlines in one of the walls.
  4. A fishing line made from hair.

Forms of hair line

pluralhair lines

Questions about hair line

What is hair line the alternative form of?
Hair line is the alternative form of hairline.

Words near hair line in the dictionary

  1. hair irons
  2. hair jellies
  3. hair jelly
  4. hair job
  5. hair jobs
  6. hair line
  7. hair lines
  8. hair loss
  9. hair mask
  10. hair masks
  11. hair match

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hair line (page history and authors); hairline (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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