Synset

the front of the human head from the forehead to the chin and ear to ear
<noun.body> freq. cnt.: 193 freq. cnt.: 193

sample sentences

"he washed his face"
"I wish I had seen the look on his face when he got the news"

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

semantic pointers

part holonym

man, human being, human, homo head, caput

hypernym

external body part

part meronym

beard, whiskers, face fungus mouth eye, oculus, optic eyebrow, brow, supercilium facial vein, vena facialis facial, facial nerve, nervus facialis, seventh cranial nerve nose, olfactory organ chin, mentum feature, lineament facial muscle brow, forehead cheek jowl jaw

hyponym

physiognomy, countenance, visage, phiz, kisser, smiler, mug