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View synonyms for eyebrow

eyebrow

[ ahy-brou ]

noun

  1. the arch or ridge forming the upper part of the orbit of the eye.
  2. the fringe of hair growing on this arch or ridge.
  3. a dormer having a roof that is an upwardly curved continuation of the main roof plane.
  4. Printing, Journalism. kicker ( def 9 ).
  5. Nautical. a curved molding protecting a port from falling or dripping water.


eyebrow

/ ˈaɪˌbraʊ /

noun

  1. the transverse bony ridge over each eye
  2. the arch of hair that covers this ridge superciliary
  3. raise an eyebrow
    See raise
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of eyebrow1

First recorded in 1575–85; eye + brow
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Idioms and Phrases

see cause raised eyebrows .
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Example Sentences

“When I talk to people about the show, their eyebrows raise, but every single new person I talk to has a personal story, idea, or fresh interpretation.”

She meticulously manages the shape of her eyebrows and is well-groomed otherwise.

A young Saeedah and her father have eyebrows “set high above their eyes, so they looked skeptical or like they were laughing at a joke no one else understood.”

Any method that could give Google even more control over the ad process has advertisers, publishers and ad tech firms raising eyebrows.

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Clean eating is such a common phrase that it might not raise an eyebrow, but it’s problematic, too.

The trade in empty bottles should be as eyebrow-raising as the old Soviet dud-bulb biz.

It barely raised an eyebrow, perhaps because many assumed it was yet another iteration of the same old pipedream.

Brash, crass, and sporting a perpetually raised eyebrow, Ash Williams remains the ultimate postmodern superhero.

In any other civilized nation this effort at some kind of summer escape would barely raise an eyebrow.

All the while, his father continues to make headlines with his every eyebrow-raising utterance.

Mr. Wilding raised one eyebrow and looked aslant at Trenchard, whose weather-beaten face was suddenly agrin with stupefaction.

He received what she said with suitably impressed eyebrow and nods of considerate assent.

The nurse brought her sal volatile, and washed the small cut above her eyebrow.

Barker dodged, but the edge of it cut open his eyebrow as it whizzed by, and the blood flowed fast.

The first marked Silver Jack's bronze-red face just to the left of his white eyebrow.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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