cheekbone
English

A side view of the skull, showing the cheekbone under the name zygomatic.
Alternative forms
- cheek bone
Etymology
From Middle English chekebon, chekbone, from Old English ċēacbān (“cheekbone”), equivalent to cheek + bone. Compare Dutch kaakbeen (“jawbone”).
Noun
cheekbone (plural cheekbones)
- The small prominent bone of the cheek.
- 1922, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest:
- She was like a Beardsley Salome, he had said. And indeed she had the narrow eyes and the high cheekbone of that creature, and as nearly the sinuosity as is compatible with human symmetry.
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Synonyms
Translations
bone
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