forehead

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The part of the face above the eyebrows and below the hairline.

   '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 its forehead (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.’'

2. 2
   noun

   confidence; audacity; impudence.

   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 unbashful forehead woo The means of weakness and debility

3. 3
   noun

   the large cranial bone forming the front part of the cranium: includes the upper part of the orbits

4. 4
   noun

   the part of the face above the eyes

5. 5
   noun

   The upper part of a mobile phone, above the screen.

Etymology

From Middle English forhed, forheed, from Old English forehēafod, from Proto-West Germanic *forēhaubid, corresponding to fore- + head. Cognate with Scots foreheid (“forehead”), Dutch voorhoofd (“forehead”), German Vorhaupt (“forehead”), Danish forhoved (“brow; forehead; face”). Compare also West Frisian foarholle (“forehead”), German Low German Vörkopp (“forehead”).