# forehead

Pronunciation: say "FOR-hed" US /ˈfɔɹˌhɛd/, UK /ˈfɔː(ɹ)hɛd/

## Noun

1. The area of the face between the eyebrows and the line where the hair begins.
   - Simple: The flat part of your face above your eyes and below your hair.
   - _A deep frown creased his forehead as he read the letter._
   - _The child's forehead felt hot, so her mother checked for a fever._
2. The area between the top edge of a mobile phone's screen and the top of the phone.
   - Simple: The strip at the top of a phone, above the screen.
   - _Reviewers praised the slim forehead that gave the device an almost edge-to-edge look._
   - _Hiding the camera in the forehead let engineers reduce the top bezel._
3. Boldness or nerve; the audacity to act or speak without shame or hesitation.
   - Simple: Bold confidence that ignores good manners or any sense of shame.
   - _She faced her accusers with a forehead that never once wavered._
   - _Only a man of such forehead would deny the charge to the magistrate's face._

## Origin

From Middle English forhed, from Old English forehēafod, from Proto-West Germanic *forēhaubid, formed from fore- plus head. It is related to Dutch voorhoofd, German Vorhaupt, and Danish forhoved.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/forehead (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).