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smily face

smily face is the alternative form of smiley face.

Meaning of smiley face

Noun

smiley face (plural smiley faces)

  1. A smiley, a simplified drawing of a smiling face, using two dots for the eyes and an arc for the mouth.
  2. (Internet, rare) A smiley, a sequence of text characters used to represent a happy mood, e.g. :) or :-).
    • Enter the smiley face, the computer hacker's version of comic relief.2002, Lisa Malia McDonough, Lisa, the Brief Life of a Writer, page 136

Forms of smily face

pluralsmily faces

Questions about smily face

What is smily face the alternative form of?
Smily face is the alternative form of smiley face.

Words near smily face in the dictionary

  1. smilodons
  2. smilodontine
  3. smilodontines
  4. smilt
  5. smily
  6. smily face
  7. sminthurid
  8. sminthurids
  9. smirch
  10. smirched
  11. smirches

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Adapted from Wiktionary: smily face (page history and authors); smiley face (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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