Google
 

AllWords.com Home

English Dictionary - With Multi-Lingual Search

 
 
Complete Definition of "forehead"

English

Pronunciation
fŏ'rəd, /ˈfɒrəd/, /"fQr@d/
fô(r)'hĕd, /ˈfɔː(r)hed/, /"fO:(r)hed/

Despite the fact that the word forehead looks as if it were composed by fore and head, its traditional Wikipedia:List_of_words_of_disputed_pronunciation#F|pronunciation is IPA|/ˈfɒɹɪd/ (FORrid, rhymes with horrid), even if the more logical pronunciation IPA|/ˈfɔː(ɹ)hɛd/ is becoming more common.

Noun
en-noun

  1. anatomy The part of the face above the eyebrows and below the hairline.

Translations
trans-top|part of face above eyebrows
Albanian: ballë f
Arabic: ARchar|جبهة (jabha)
Bosnian: čelo n
Catalan: front m
Chinese Characters: 頟; 額, 额
Chinese: 前額, 前额
Croatian: čelo n
Czech: čelo n
Danish: pande c
Dutch: voorhoofd n
Esperanto: frunto
Fijian: yadre
Finnish: otsa
French: front#oFrench|front m
German: Stirn f
Greek: μέτωπο (métopo) n
Gujarati: કપાળ (kapāl) m
Guugu Yimidhirr: bidi, gaman
Hawaiian: lae
Hindi: माथा (māthā) m, माथ (māth) m, ललाट (lalāt') m
Hungarian: homlok
trans-mid
Icelandic: enni n
Indonesian: dahi
Italian: fronte#Italian|fronte f
Japanese: 額 (ひたい, hitai), おでこ (odeko)
Korean: 이마 (ima)
Kurdish: enî f, KUchar|ناوچه‌وان
Maori: rae
Northern Sami: gállu
Polish: czoło n
Portuguese: testa#Portuguese|testa f
Russian: лоб m (lob)
Serbian:
:Cyrillic: чело#Serbian|чело n
:Roman: čelo#Serbian|čelo n
Slovak: čelo n
Slovene: čelo n
Spanish: frente f
Swedish: panna
Telugu: నుదురు (nuduru)
Turkish: alın
Urdu: URchar|ماتھا (māthā) m, URchar|ماتھ (māth) m, URchar|للاٹ (lalāt') m
trans-bottom

fr:forehead
ko:forehead
io:forehead
id:forehead
it:forehead
hu:forehead
ja:forehead
pl:forehead
ru:forehead
simple:forehead
fi:forehead
ta:forehead
te:forehead
vi:forehead
zh:forehead

Revision and Credits for"forehead"
Dictionary content provided from Wiktionary.org under the
GNU Free Documentation License
 
 

 Find:
  Words Starting With:
  Words Ending With:
  Words Containing:
  Words That Match:

 
 Translate Into:
  
Dutch   French   German
  
Italian   Spanish
    Show results per page.


Browse the Dictionary
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

 
  

   
Allwords Copyright 1998-2012 Allsites LLC. All rights reserved.