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A humanforehead.

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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishforhed,forheed, fromOld Englishforehēafod, fromProto-West Germanic*forēhaubid, corresponding tofore- +‎head. Cognate withScotsforeheid(“forehead”),Dutchvoorhoofd(“forehead”),GermanVorhaupt(“forehead”),Danishforhoved(“brow; forehead; face”). Compare alsoWest Frisianfoarholle(“forehead”),German Low GermanVörkopp(“forehead”).

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Noun

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forehead (countable anduncountable,pluralforeheads)

  2. (countable) The part of theface above theeyebrows and below thehairline.
    • 1865,Lewis Carroll,Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Macmillan:
      'This question the Dodo could not answer without a great deal of thought, and it sat for a long time with one finger pressed upon itsforehead (the position in which you usually see Shakespeare, in the pictures of him), while the rest waited in silence. At last the Dodo said, ‘everybody has won, and all must have prizes.’'
    • 1910,Emerson Hough, chapter I, inThe Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.:The Bobbs-Merrill Company,→OCLC:
      Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes.[…]She put back a truant curl from herforehead where it had sought egress to the world, and looked him full in the face now, drawing a deep breath which caused the round of her bosom to lift the lace at her throat.
    • 1963,Margery Allingham, chapter 17, inThe China Governess: A Mystery, London:Chatto & Windus,→OCLC:
      The face which emerged was not reassuring. It was blunt and grey, the nose springing thick and flat from high on the frontal bone of theforehead, whilst his eyes were narrow slits of dark in a tight bandage of tissue. […].
  3. (uncountable)confidence;audacity;impudence.
    • c.1598–1600 (date written),William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward] Blount, published1623,→OCLC,[Act II, scene iii], lines691-93:
      Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty;
      For in my youth I never did apply
      Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood,
      Nor did not with unbashfulforehead woo
      The means of weakness and debility
  4. The upper part of amobile phone, above thescreen.

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Translations

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part of face above eyebrows—see alsobrow
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