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PHYSIOGNOMY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The human face ('kisser' and 'smiler' and 'mug' are informal terms for 'face' and 'phiz' is British)
Synonyms:
countenance; kisser; mug; phiz; physiognomy; smiler; visage
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("physiognomy" is a kind of...):
face; human face (the front of the human head from the forehead to the chin and ear to ear)
Domain region:
Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)
Domain usage:
colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "physiognomy"):
pudding-face; pudding face (a large fat human face)
Holonyms ("physiognomy" is a part of...):
human head (the head of a human being)
Context examples:
His shape, now divested of cloak, I perceived harmonised in squareness with his physiognomy: I suppose it was a good figure in the athletic sense of the term—broad chested and thin flanked, though neither tall nor graceful.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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