brow

American  

[brau] / braʊ /

noun

• brows
  plural

1. Anatomy. the ridge over the eye.

2. the hair growing on that ridge; eyebrow.

3. the forehead.

   He wore his hat low over his brow.

4. a person's countenance or mien.

5. the edge of a steep place.

   She looked down over the brow of the hill.

6. gangplank.

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brow British  

/ braʊ /

noun

1. the part of the face from the eyes to the hairline; forehead

2. short for eyebrow

3. the expression of the face; countenance

   a troubled brow

4. the top of a mine shaft; pithead

5. the jutting top of a hill, etc

6. dialect a steep slope on a road

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brow Idioms  

1. see by the sweat of one's brow; cause raised eyebrows.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• brows
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of brow

before 1000; Middle English browe, Old English brū; akin to Old Norse brūn, Sanskrit bhrūs

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Example Sentences

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brow brows

The sodium also gets trapped, leading to, for example, the salty perspiration on the brow of a baby.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

Growing up she was skinny brow queen with big curly hair.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

Lifts of all sorts are, no pun intended, on the rise: forehead and brow lifts up 29 percent; arm lifts and neck lifts both up 21 percent.

From Slate ● Sep. 2, 2026

With a massive shock of red hair, bone-white makeup and oversized brow, Curry looked like a hellish Bozo the Clown.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

Boaz stared at the graffiti, his brow furrowed and his jaw tight.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny

“Phew!” the WB execs said, exhaling and wiping their brows.

From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026

One common complaint from older clients is a “parenthesis” effect, said Reszko, which is when newly formed curved wrinkles appear above the brows after too much neurotoxin injection.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026

Frequently, she’s shown smoldering with fury or dark intent, gazing up from under her brows with a lowered chin, something Moss says she lifted from Stanley Kubrick’s films.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2025

Guitars are plucked, fiddles are fiddled, and brows are furrowed as Marcus Mumford navigates his mid-30s, and the reorganisation of friendships and priorities that mid-life brings.

From BBC ● Mar. 23, 2025

Kat catches her eye, lifts her brows in a question.

From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti

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