forehead

noun

SayFOR-hed/ˈfɔɹˌhɛd//ˈfɔː(ɹ)hɛd/

Pluralforeheads

3 meanings of forehead

1
nouncountable
The flat part of your face above your eyes and below your hair.
Like the smooth space between your eyebrows and where your hair starts.
She wiped the sweat off her forehead after the long run.
He pressed a cold cloth to his forehead to ease the headache.
Similarbrow
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2
nouncountable or uncountable
The strip at the top of a phone, above the screen.
Like the space above your eyes on a face, but on a phone instead.
The new phone has a thin forehead and almost no border around the screen.
Designers shrank the forehead to make room for a bigger display.
Similarbezel
Oppositechin
3
noununcountable
Bold confidence that ignores good manners or any sense of shame.
Like having the nerve to ask for more cake right after finishing your own.
He had the forehead to demand a raise on his very first day.
It took real forehead to walk in uninvited and sit at the head table.
Similaraudacity, nerve, effrontery, gall, boldness
Oppositetimidity, shyness
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Origin

From Old English forehēafod, which is made of fore- plus head.