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English

Etymology

From Middle English face, from Old French face, from Vulgar Latin *facia, from Latin faci?s (“form, appearance”), from facere (“to make, do”).

Displaced native Middle English onlete (“face, countenance, appearance”), anleth (“face”), from Old English anwlite, andwlita, compare German Antlitz; Old English ans?en (“face”), Middle English neb (“face, nose”) (from Old English nebb), Middle English ler, leor, leer (“face, cheek, countenance”) (from Old English hl?or), and non-native Middle English vis (“face, appearance, look”) (from Old French vis) and Middle English chere (“face”) from Old French chere.

Pronunciation

• enPR: f?s, IPA^(key): /fe?s/
• Hyphenation: face
• Rhymes: -e?s

Noun

face (plural faces)

1. (anatomy) The front part of the head of a human or other animal, featuring the eyes, nose and mouth, and the surrounding area.
2. One's facial expression.

3. (in expressions such as 'make a face') A distorted facial expression; an expression of displeasure, insult, etc.

4. The public image; outward appearance.

5. The frontal aspect of something.

6. An aspect of the character or nature of someone or something.

7. (figuratively) Presence; sight; front.

   • The Bat—they called him the Bat. Like a bat he chose the night hours for his work of rapine; like a bat he struck and vanished, pouncingly, noiselessly; like a bat he never showed himself to the face of the day.

8. The directed force of something.

9. Good reputation; standing in the eyes of others; dignity; prestige. (See lose face, save face).
10. Shameless confidence; boldness; effrontery.
    • a. 1694, John Tillotson, Preface to The Works

      This is the man that has the face to charge others with false citations.

11. Any surface, especially a front or outer one.
12. (geometry) Any of the flat bounding surfaces of a polyhedron. More generally, any of the bounding pieces of a polytope of any dimension.
13. The numbered dial of a clock or watch, the clock face.
14. (slang) The mouth.

15. (slang) Makeup; one's complete facial cosmetic application.

16. (metonymically) A person.

17. (informal) A familiar or well-known person; a member of a particular scene, such as music or fashion scene.

18. (professional wrestling, slang) A headlining wrestler with a persona embodying heroic or virtuous traits and who is regarded as a "good guy", especially one who is handsome and well-conditioned; a baby face.

19. (cricket) The front surface of a bat.
20. (golf) The part of a golf club that hits the ball.
21. (card games) The side of the card that shows its value (as opposed to the back side, which looks the same on all cards of the deck).
22. (heraldry) The head of a lion, shown face-on and cut off immediately behind the ears.
23. The width of a pulley, or the length of a cog from end to end.

24. (typography) A typeface.
25. Mode of regard, whether favourable or unfavourable; favour or anger.
26. (informal) The amount expressed on a bill, note, bond, etc., without any interest or discount; face value.

Synonyms

• (part of head): countenance, visage, phiz (obsolete), phizog (obsolete), see also Thesaurus:countenance
• (facial expression): countenance, expression, facial expression, look, visage, see also Thesaurus:facial expression
• (the front or outer surface): foreside
• (public image): image, public image, reputation
• (of a polyhedron): facet (different specialised meaning in mathematical use), surface (not in mathematical use)
• (slang: mouth): cakehole, gob, mush, piehole, trap, see also Thesaurus:mouth
• (slang: wrestling): good guy, hero

Antonyms

• (baby face): heel

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• ? Danish: fjæs
• ? Norwegian: fjes
• ? Swedish: fjäs

Translations

See face/translations § Noun.

Verb

face (third-person singular simple present faces, present participle facing, simple past and past participle faced)

1. (transitive, of a person or animal) To position oneself or itself so as to have one's face closest to (something).

   • Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes. The clear light of the bright autumn morning had no terrors for youth and health like hers.

2. (transitive, of an object) To have its front closest to, or in the direction of (something else).
3. (transitive) To cause (something) to turn or present a face or front, as in a particular direction.
   • 1963, Ian Fleming, On Her Majesty's Secret Service

     The croupier delicately faced her other two cards with the tip of his spatula. A four! She had lost!

4. (transitive) To be presented or confronted with; to have in prospect.

5. (transitive) To deal with (a difficult situation or person); to accept (facts, reality, etc.) even when undesirable.

   • I'll face / This tempest, and deserve the name of king.
6. (intransitive) To have the front in a certain direction.

7. (transitive) To have as an opponent.
8. (intransitive, cricket) To be the batsman on strike.

9. (transitive, obsolete) To confront impudently; to bully.
10. (transitive) To cover in front, for ornament, protection, etc.; to put a facing upon.

11. (transitive) To line near the edge, especially with a different material.

12. To cover with better, or better appearing, material than the mass consists of, for purpose of deception, as the surface of a box of tea, a barrel of sugar, etc.
13. (engineering) To make the surface of (anything) flat or smooth; to dress the face of (a stone, a casting, etc.); especially, in turning, to shape or smooth the flat surface of, as distinguished from the cylindrical surface.
14. (transitive, retail) To arrange the products in (a store) so that they are tidy and attractive.

Synonyms

• (position oneself/itself towards):
• (have its front closest to):
• (deal with): confront, deal with

Derived terms

• in-your-face

Related terms

Translations

See also

• Face on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Face (geometry) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Face (hieroglyph) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Face (mining) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Face (sociological concept) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Further reading

• MathWorld article on geometrical faces
• Faces in programming
• JavaServer Faces
• face on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

References

• face on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• CAFE, cafe, café

Afar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f???e/

Verb

facé

1. (transitive) boil

Conjugation

References

• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)?^[4], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis), page 280

French

Etymology

From Middle French and Old French face, from Vulgar Latin *facia, from Latin faci?s (“face, shape”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fas/
• Homophones: faces, fasce, fasse, fassent, fasses
• Rhymes: -as

Noun

face f (plural faces)

1. (anatomy) face
2. surface, side
3. (geometry) face
4. head (of a coin)

Derived terms

See also

• aspect
• figure
• surface
• tête
• visage

Further reading

• “face” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• café

Friulian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *facia, from Latin faci?s (“face, shape”).

Noun

face f (plural facis)

1. face

Interlingua

Verb

face

1. present of facer
2. imperative of facer

Italian

Verb

face

1. (archaic) third-person singular indicative present of fare

Latin

Noun

face

1. ablative singular of fax

Verb

face

1. second-person singular present imperative active of faci?

Middle English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old French face, from Vulgar Latin *facia, from Classical Latin faci?s.

Noun

face (plural faces)

1. (anatomy) face
   • 14^th C., Chaucer, General Prologue

     Boold was hir face, and fair, and reed of hewe.

     Bold was her face, and fair, and red of hue.

Synonyms

• visage

Descendants

• English: face (see there for further descendants)
  • Northumbrian: fyess
• Scots: face
• Yola: faace

References

• “f?ce, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

From Old English fæs.

Noun

face

1. Alternative form of fass

Old French

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *facia, from Latin faci?s (“face, shape”).

Noun

face f (oblique plural faces, nominative singular face, nominative plural faces)

1. (anatomy) face
   • c. 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:

     Le chief li desarme et la face.

     He exposed his head and his face.

Synonyms

• vis (more common)
• visage
• volt

Descendants

• Middle French: face
  • French: face
• Norman: fache, fach
• ? Middle English: face
  • English: face (see there for further descendants)
    • Northumbrian: fyess
  • Scots: face
  • Yola: faace

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese façe, faz, from Latin faci?s.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?fa.s?/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?fa.si/
• Hyphenation: fa?ce

Noun

face f (plural faces)

1. (anatomy, geometry) face

   Synonyms: cara, rosto

2. (anatomy) the cheek

   Synonym: bochecha

References

• “façe” in Dicionario de dicionarios do galego medieval.

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin facere, present active infinitive of faci?, from Proto-Italic *faki?, from Proto-Indo-European *d?eh?- (“to put, place, set”). The verb's original past participle was fapt, from factum, but was changed and replaced several centuries ago. An alternative third-person simple perfect, fece, from fecit, was also found in some dialects.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?fat??e]

Verb

a face (third-person singular present face, past participle f?cut) 3rd conj.

1. (transitive) do, make
2. (reflexive) to be made, to be done

Conjugation

Derived terms

• afacere
• facere
• f?c?tor

Related terms

• desface
• fapt

See also

• înf?ptui
• face dragoste

References

• face in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /?fa?e/, [?fa.?e]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /?fase/, [?fa.se]

Verb

face

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of facer.
2. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of facer.

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /f?nt/
• Rhymes: -?nt
• (US) IPA^(key): /f?nt/
• Rhymes: -?nt

Etymology 1

From Old English font, an early borrowing from Latin f?ns, fontis (“fountain”).

Noun

font (plural fonts)

1. (Christianity) A receptacle in a church for holy water, especially one used in baptism.

   Synonym: stoup

   Hyponym: baptismal font
2. A receptacle for oil in a lamp.
3. (figuratively) Spring, source, fountain.

Translations

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Middle French fonte, feminine past participle of verb fondre (“to melt”).

Alternative forms

• fount (UK)

Noun

font (plural fonts)

1. (typography) A set of glyphs of unified design, belonging to one typeface (e.g., Helvetica), style (e.g., italic), and weight (e.g., bold). Usually representing the letters of an alphabet and its supplementary characters.
   1. In metal typesetting, a set of type sorts in one size.
   2. In phototypesetting, a set of patterns forming glyphs of any size, or the film they are stored on.
   3. In digital typesetting, a set of glyphs in a single style, representing one or more alphabets or writing systems, or the computer code representing it.
2. (computing) A computer file containing the code used to draw and compose the glyphs of one or more typographic fonts on a computer display or printer.

Derived terms

Translations

Descendants

• Thai: ????? (f??n)

Verb

font (third-person singular simple present fonts, present participle fonting, simple past and past participle fonted)

1. (television, colloquial, transitive) To overlay (text) on the picture.
   • 1981, William Safire, On language (page 78)

     When figures or quotes are thought helpful to understanding a spot, they're "fonted" over the cover picture.

   • 1987, The Foundation Center, Promoting issues & ideas: a guide to public relations for nonprofit organizations (page 97)

     […] character generator instead of an easel card to create letters on camera or telephone numbers that can run across the TV screen. The process is called fonting.

References

• “font” in the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2004.
• Bringhurst, Robert (2002). The Elements of Typographic Style, version 2.5, pp 291–2. Vancouver, Hartley & Marks. ?ISBN.

Etymology 3

Apparently from fount, with influence from the senses above (under etymology 1).

Noun

font (plural fonts)

1. (figuratively) A source, wellspring, fount.
   • 1824 — George Gordon, Lord Byron, Don Juan, canto V

     A gaudy taste; for they are little skill'd in
     The arts of which these lands were once the font

   • 1910 — Arthur Edward Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, part II

     As I am not drawing here on the font of imagination to refresh that of fact and experience, I do not suggest that the Tarot set the example of expressing Secret Doctrine in pictures and that it was followed by Hermetic writers; but it is noticeable that it is perhaps the earliest example of this art.

   • 1915 — Woodrow Wilson, Third State of the Union Address

     I am interested to fix your attention on this prospect now because unless you take it within your view and permit the full significance of it to command your thought I cannot find the right light in which to set forth the particular matter that lies at the very font of my whole thought as I address you to-day.

Translations

Further reading

• font on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• holy water font on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• baptismal font on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan font, from Latin fons, fontem, of Proto-Indo-European origin.

Noun

font m (plural fonts)

1. fountain
2. source (of water)
3. source (origin)
4. (journalism) source

Synonyms

(fountain): fontana

Derived terms

• codi font
• codi font obert

Related terms

• fontaner
• fontaneria
• fontinyol

Further reading

• “font” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f??/
• Rhymes: -??

Verb

font

1. third-person plural present indicative of faire

Friulian

Alternative forms

• fonz

Etymology

From Latin fundus.

Noun

font m (plural fonts)

1. bottom
2. background
3. landed property, farm
4. fund

Related terms

• profont

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?font]
• Hyphenation: font
• Rhymes: -ont

Etymology 1

From German Pfund, from Latin pondo.

Noun

font (plural fontok)

1. pound (weight)
2. pound (currency unit)

   Synonym: font sterling

Declension

Derived terms

• fontol
• fontos

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English font, from Middle French fonte, feminine past participle of fondre (“to melt”), from Latin fund? (“I melt”).

Noun

font (plural fontok)

1. (typography) digital font (set of glyphs of unified design contained in a computer file)

Declension

Etymology 3

From the verb fon +? -t.

Verb

font

1. third-person singular indicative past indefinite of fon

Participle

font

1. past participle of fon

   Synonym: (in certain senses) fonott

Declension

References

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin fons, via Old Norse fontr (sense 1), and French fonte, via English font (sense 2)

Noun

font m (definite singular fonten, indefinite plural fonter, definite plural fontene)

1. a baptismal font
2. (typography) font, or fount (UK)

References

• “font” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin fons, via Old Norse fontr (sense 1), and French fonte, via English font (sense 2)

Noun

font m (definite singular fonten, indefinite plural fontar, definite plural fontane)

1. a baptismal font
2. (typography) font, or fount (UK)

References

• “font” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

From English font, from Middle French fonte, feminine past participle of verb fondre (“to melt”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?nt/

Noun

font m inan

1. (computing) font (computer file containing the code used to draw and compose the glyphs)

Declension

Further reading

• font in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• font in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Swedish

Noun

font c

1. (typography) a font

Usage notes

• The synonym teckensnitt is considered more correct.

Declension

Synonyms

• teckensnitt