MOUSTACHE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An unshaved growth of hair on the upper lip

Example:

he looked younger after he shaved off his mustache

Synonyms:

moustache; mustache

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("moustache" is a kind of...):

facial hair (hair on the face (especially on the face of a man))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "moustache"):

soup-strainer; toothbrush (slang for a mustache)

handle-bars; moustachio; mustachio (a large bushy moustache (with hair growing sometimes down the sides of the mouth))

walrus moustache; walrus mustache (a bushy droopy mustache)

Holonyms ("moustache" is a part of...):

beard; face fungus; whiskers (the hair growing on the lower part of a man's face)

Credits

Context examples:

"By George!" cried our peer, pulling at his moustache in great perplexity, "I say—what the deuce are we to do with these people?"

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“I might have known it,” said Chandos, twisting his moustache, and still looking thoughtfully at the cavalier.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

With his savage eyes and bristling moustache he was wonderfully like a tiger himself.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“I should never have known you under that moustache, and I daresay you would not be prepared to swear to me. This I presume is your celebrated friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes?”

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They wore high boots, with their trousers tucked into them, and had long black hair and heavy black moustaches.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

A passenger sprang out of it and advanced swiftly towards him, while the chauffeur, a heavily built, elderly man with a grey moustache, settled down like one who resigns himself to a long vigil.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

With the connivance and assistance of his wife he disguised himself, covered those keen eyes with tinted glasses, masked the face with a moustache and a pair of bushy whiskers, sunk that clear voice into an insinuating whisper, and doubly secure on account of the girl’s short sight, he appears as Mr. Hosmer Angel, and keeps off other lovers by making love himself.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And Summerlee, too, there he was with his short briar between his thin moustache and his gray goat's-beard, his worn face protruded in eager debate as he queried all Challenger's propositions.