FRONT TOOTH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does front tooth mean? 

• FRONT TOOTH (noun)
  The noun FRONT TOOTH has 1 sense:

1. a tooth situated at the front of the mouth

  Familiarity information: FRONT TOOTH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FRONT TOOTH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A tooth situated at the front of the mouth

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

anterior; front tooth

Context example:

his malocclusion was caused by malposed anteriors

Hypernyms ("front tooth" is a kind of...):

tooth (hard bonelike structures in the jaws of vertebrates; used for biting and chewing or for attack and defense)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "front tooth"):

bucktooth (a large projecting front tooth)

 Context examples 

But he looked such a very obdurate butcher as he stood scraping the great block in the shop, and moreover, his appearance was so little improved by the loss of a front tooth which I had knocked out, that I thought it best to make no advances.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)