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Definition of Human face
1. Noun. The front of the human head from the forehead to the chin and ear to ear. "I wish I had seen the look on his face when he got the news"
Group relationships: Homo, Human, Human Being, Man, Caput, Head
Generic synonyms: External Body Part
Terms within: Beard, Face Fungus, Whiskers, Mouth, Eye, Oculus, Optic, Brow, Eyebrow, 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
Specialized synonyms: Countenance, Kisser, Mug, Phiz, Physiognomy, Smiler, Visage
Derivative terms: Facial
Lexicographical Neighbors of Human Face
Literary usage of Human face
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1868)
"The Formation and Early Growth of the Bones of the human face." By GEORGE W.
CALLENDER, Lecturer on Anatomy at St. Bartholomew's Hospital. ..."
2. Physiognomy and Expression by Paolo Mantegazza (1899)
"THE human face. SOON after birth, when our eyes have already the power of sight,
... The human face, on which can be painted an immense love or an eternal ..."
3. First Steps in Mental Growth: A Series of Studies in the Psychology of Infancy by David R. Major (1906)
"For example, would a drawing which represented only the nose and eyes suggest
the human face ? The same problem, put negatively, was — how many of the ..."
4. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1907)
"... and some other chipping to bring out the remarkable western human face, seen
in profile, well WEST-END AND PROFILE VIEWS, WHITE HORSE STONE. ..."
5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Within that heavenly fire he began gradually to distinguish four living beings
with bodies as men, yet with four faces each: a human face in front, ..."
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