FRECKLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does freckle mean? 

• FRECKLE (noun)
  The noun FRECKLE has 1 sense:

1. a small brownish spot (of the pigment melanin) on the skin

  Familiarity information: FRECKLE used as a noun is very rare.

• FRECKLE (verb)
  The verb FRECKLE has 2 senses:

1. become freckled

2. mark with freckles

  Familiarity information: FRECKLE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FRECKLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A small brownish spot (of the pigment melanin) on the skin

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

freckle; lentigo

Hypernyms ("freckle" is a kind of...):

macula; macule (a patch of skin that is discolored but not usually elevated; caused by various diseases)

Holonyms ("freckle" is a part of...):

cutis; skin; tegument (a natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch)

Derivation:

freckle (mark with freckles)

freckle (become freckled)

• FRECKLE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they freckle    ... he / she / it freckles   
Past simple: freckled   
Past participle: freckled   
-ing form: freckling   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Become freckled

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

I freckle easily

Hypernyms (to "freckle" is one way to...):

spot (become spotted)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

freckle (a small brownish spot (of the pigment melanin) on the skin)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Mark with freckles

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "freckle" is one way to...):

spot (mark with a spot or spots so as to allow easy recognition)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s somebody

Derivation:

freckle (a small brownish spot (of the pigment melanin) on the skin)

 Context examples 

Small circumscribed melanoses resembling, but differing histologically from, freckles.

(Lentigo, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Then perhaps canst tell me the name of a great loathly lump of a brother wi' freckled face an' a hand like a spade.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was easy to see that he was a quick, irascible, high-blooded man, for he was talking hotly about his grievances with a flush of anger upon his freckled cheeks.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You see how it has carried away her freckles.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

I will answer for it, he never cared three straws about her—who could about such a nasty little freckled thing?

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

A rare genetic condition that causes brown spots and tumors on the skin, freckling in skin areas not exposed to the sun, tumors on the nerves, and developmental changes in the nervous system, muscles, bone, and skin.

(Neurofibromatosis type 1, NCI Dictionary)

On the other side, discoursing of the ladies in that emperor’s court, he used to tell me, one had freckles; another too wide a mouth; a third too large a nose; nothing of which I was able to distinguish.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

She was plainly but neatly dressed, with a bright, quick face, freckled like a plover’s egg, and with the brisk manner of a woman who has had her own way to make in the world.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Such personal praise might have struck her, especially as it did not appear to Anne that the freckles were at all lessened.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

The nipple was about half the bigness of my head, and the hue both of that and the dug, so varied with spots, pimples, and freckles, that nothing could appear more nauseous: for I had a near sight of her, she sitting down, the more conveniently to give suck, and I standing on the table.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)