FALSE TEETH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does false teeth mean? 

• FALSE TEETH (noun)
  The noun FALSE TEETH has 1 sense:

1. a removable denture

  Familiarity information: FALSE TEETH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FALSE TEETH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A removable denture

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("false teeth" is a kind of...):

dental plate; denture; plate (a dental appliance that artificially replaces missing teeth)

 Context examples 

Dentures are false teeth made to replace teeth you have lost.

(Dentures, NIH: National Institute on Aging)

The husband was a teetotaler, there was no other woman, and the conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling them at his wife, which, you will allow, is not an action likely to occur to the imagination of the average story-teller.

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