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When I wake up on a Sunday morning with a slight hangover, in the gym with no makeup on, that's who Natalie Dormer really is. The girl next door who gets a spot on her forehead occasionally.
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Meaning of "forehead" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD FOREHEAD

Old English forhēafod; related to Old Frisian forhāfd, Middle Low German vorhōved.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF FOREHEAD

forehead  [ˈfɒrɪd] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FOREHEAD

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Forehead is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES FOREHEAD MEAN IN ENGLISH?

forehead

Forehead

In human anatomy, the forehead is an area of the head bounded by three features, two of the skull and one of the scalp. The top of the forehead is marked by the hairline, the edge of the area where hair on the scalp grows. The bottom of the forehead is marked by the supraorbital ridge, the bone feature of the skull above the eyes. The two sides of the forehead are marked by the temporal ridge, a bone feature that links the supraorbital ridge to the coronal suture line and beyond. In Terminologia Anatomica, "sinciput" is given as the Latin equivalent to "forehead".

Definition of forehead in the English dictionary

The definition of forehead in the dictionary is the part of the face between the natural hairline and the eyes, formed skeletally by the frontal bone of the skull; brow related adjective frontal.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH FOREHEAD


Alfred
ˈælfrɪd
arid
ˈærɪd
chlorid
ˈklɒrɪd
florid
ˈflɒrɪd
grid
ɡrɪd
hatred
ˈheɪtrɪd
horrid
ˈhɒrɪd
hurried
ˈhʌrɪd
hybrid
ˈhaɪbrɪd
kindred
ˈkɪndrɪd
Madrid
məˈdrɪd
married
ˈmærɪd
rid
rɪd
sacred
ˈseɪkrɪd
subtorrid
sʌbˈtɒrɪd
torrid
ˈtɒrɪd
unmarried
ʌnˈmærɪd
unquarried
ʌnˈkwɒrɪd
varied
ˈvɛərɪd
worried
ˈwʌrɪd

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FOREHEAD

foregoneness
foreground
foreground processing
foregut
forehand
forehand drive
forehand volley
forehanded
forehandedly
forehandedness
forehent
forehock
forehoof
foreign
foreign affairs
foreign agent
foreign aid
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
foreign bill
foreign body

WORDS THAT END LIKE FOREHEAD

ahead
beetlehead
behead
bluehead
bobblehead
bonehead
bridgehead
bubblehead
bufflehead
chucklehead
cokehead
dopehead
fiddlehead
figurehead
juicehead
knucklehead
snakehead
sorehead
squarehead
turtlehead
Whitehead

Synonyms and antonyms of forehead in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «FOREHEAD»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «forehead» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of forehead

Translation of «forehead» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF FOREHEAD

Find out the translation of forehead to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of forehead from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «forehead» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

前额
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

frente
570 millions of speakers

English

forehead
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

माथे
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

جَبْهَة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

лоб
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

testa
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

কপাল
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

front
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

dahi
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Stirn
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

이마
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Dhadha
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

trán
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

நெற்றியில்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कपाळ
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

alın
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

fronte
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

czoło
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

чоло
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

frunte
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

μέτωπο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

voorkop
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

panna
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

panne
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of forehead

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «FOREHEAD»

The term «forehead» is very widely used and occupies the 19.280 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «FOREHEAD» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «forehead» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «forehead» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about forehead

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10 QUOTES WITH «FOREHEAD»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word forehead.
1
Clay Aiken
I know that I've got big ears and a big forehead and that my hair sticks up. But I'm happy with myself. I'm not necessarily trying to win a beauty pageant here.
2
Jennifer Aniston
You know, I've got wrinkles on my forehead and smile lines, but what's wrong with that? I love to smile.
3
Matt Berninger
Usually, writing lyrics for me is like bleeding drop by drop from the forehead.
4
Herb Caen
Just two days in Manhattan and you find yourself looking for a place to wash your handkerchief after you wipe your forehead and it comes away black. Is there a dirtier or more fascinating city anywhere in the land? The answer to both parts of the question has to be positively negative.
5
David Carradine
I've worked with a lot of real heavy hitters, and Quentin is maybe heads and shoulders, at least a forehead, above just about anybody I've ever worked with.
6
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead.
7
Natalie Dormer
When I wake up on a Sunday morning with a slight hangover, in the gym with no makeup on, that's who Natalie Dormer really is. The girl next door who gets a spot on her forehead occasionally.
8
Gene Fowler
Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.
9
Thomas Gray
If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, he would draw his hat over his eyes.
10
Alan Hansen
The scar on my forehead is from running through a plate-glass panel when I was 15. I had 27 stitches, which took two hours.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FOREHEAD»

Discover the use of forehead in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to forehead and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Star in My Forehead: Selected Poems
A collection of poems by one of th world's great lyric love poets, offered in a bilingual edition.
Else Lasker-Schüler, 2000
2
The Writing on My Forehead: A Novel
In need of understanding, she looks to the stories of those who came before—her grandparents, a beloved aunt, her mother and father.
Nafisa Haji, 2009
3
A Kettle of Vultures: . . . left beak marks on my forehead
Unbeknownst to Iris Chapman, the Atlanta-based owner of Image Control, a kettle of low-flying vultures convenes overhead as she boards the flight home to Opa Locka on the day of her brother Victor’s controversial wedding.
Sabrina Lamb, 2010
4
Transblepharoplasty subperiosteal forehead and midface lift
(Producer) Demonstrates Dr. Malcolm D. Paul's technique for rejuvenating the upper and middle thirds of the face.
Malcolm D. Paul, 1999
5
Atlas of Head & Neck Surgery--otolaryngology
This procedure involves reconstruction of the skin, soft tissue, and framework or the external nose using local tissue and regional skin and soft tissue of the forehead. INDICATIONS Large defects of the external nose after trauma or surgical ...
Byron J. Bailey, 2001
6
Raiders of the Low Forehead
Sicker than an outbreak of ebola in an orphanage, funnier than a napalm strike on the Comic Relief studios and punctuated by acts of such unspeakable ferocity that they'd have Hannibal Lecter coughing his guts up in disgust - RAIDERS OF THE ...
Stanley Manly, 1999
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Human Anatomy for Artists : The Elements of Form: The ...
HEAD The supratrochlear (frontal) vein* is located near the midline on the front of the forehead. It passes from the top of the forehead to the side of the root of the nose (medial to the inner end of the eyebrow) and heads to the upper inner ...
Eliot Goldfinger Artist/Anatomist, 1991
8
The Smile on My Forehead: Memoir of My Life with a Brain Injury
This book is my personal memoir of learning to accept my new injured self as I figure out the best way to manage life with a Traumatic Brain Injury.
Jennifer Mosher, 2009
9
Blood on the Forehead: What I Know About Writing
Using examples from five novels and five short stories, young adult writer M. E. Kerr offers insights into ways writers can get ideas and create successful stories.
M. E. Kerr, 1998
10
The Handbook of Tibetan Buddhist Symbols
Traditionally a circular red dot or tilaka of sindura on the forehead of a married woman indicates that her hushand is still alive and that she is not a widow. Such a mark provides an important visual statement in the social order of orthodox ...
‎2003

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FOREHEAD»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term forehead is used in the context of the following news items.
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Deputies: Tips, forehead tattoo lead to two arrests … - Orlando Sentinel
”Loyalty” forehead tattoo helps detectives identify suspect in gas station robberies. After a string of five gas station robberies in College Park and Lockhart in late ... «Orlando Sentinel, Jul 15»
2
Pope praises Jesuit missions in Paraguay after apology - Fairfield …
Pope Francis kisses a girl on the forehead as the next in line cries during his meeting with representatives of civil society at the San Jose school ... «Fairfield Citizen, Jul 15»
3
Brothers called up; spot left open for Gray - The Denver Post
Colorado Rockies relief pitcher Rex Brothers (49) wipes his forehead in the eighth inning June 4, 2014 at Coors Field. (John Leyba, The ... «The Denver Post, Jul 15»
4
Premier Boxing Champions on ESPN 'Thurman vs. Collazo' Results …
They go forehead-to-forehead in the center of the ring and deliver blows to the head and body, but most of the attacks are blocked. They split ... «Sherdog.com, Jul 15»
5
Cities facing uptick in violence - San Angelo Standard Times
associated press file A Chicago police officer rests his hand on his forehead at the scene where a man was shot in the face in Chicago on July ... «San Angelo Standard Times, Jul 15»
6
IN PHOTOS: Daniel, Erich share sweet moments at the 'Dreamboys …
Daniel Matsunaga kisses Erich Gonzalez's forehead after their song number during the “Dreamboys” concert in San Juan City on Saturday. «Philippine Star, Jul 15»
7
Straight talk from R.I. experts on reversing the signs of aging …
It gives a more natural appearance so someone doesn't have a paralyzed forehead ... that's horrible. What do you think has been the biggest ... «The Providence Journal, Jul 15»
8
Rory MacDonald nose busted up in photo with Robbie Lawler | Larry …
His forehead and eyes were swollen and bruised, and his nose was completely disfigured and clearly broken. He still managed to make it ... «Larry Brown Sports, Jul 15»
9
Woman hit in forehead by foul ball at Fenway
SCARY SITUATION: A female fan covers her bloodied face after she was hit in the forehead with a foul ball during the fifth inning of the Red ... «Boston Herald, Jul 15»
10
AP Exclusive: Inmate was cut nearly in two, organs missing
... eviscerated, killed by blows to the head that left him with a deep star-shaped wound on his forehead among his multiple skull fractures, cuts and other wounds, ... «KATC Lafayette News, Jul 15»

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