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PHYSIOGNOMY

Dictionary entry overview: What does physiognomy mean?

• PHYSIOGNOMY (noun)
The noun PHYSIOGNOMY has 1 sense:

1. the human face ('kisser' and 'smiler' and 'mug' are informal terms for 'face' and 'phiz' is British)

Familiarity information: PHYSIOGNOMY used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• PHYSIOGNOMY (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

The human face ('kisser' and 'smiler' and 'mug' are informal terms for 'face' and 'phiz' is British)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

physiognomy; visage; kisser; phiz; smiler; countenance; mug

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; GB; 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)

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)

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