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frown
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Word definitions for frown in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a smile/grin/frown on sb’s face ▪ There was a mischievous grin on her face. ▪ He was reading the newspaper with a frown on his face. a worried frown ▪ Her worried frown deepened. give a smile/laugh/grin/frown/yawn ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"contract the brows as an expression of displeasure," late 14c., from Old French frognier "to frown or scowl, snort, turn up one's nose" (preserved in Modern French refrogner ), related to froigne "scowling look," probably from Gaulish *frogna "nostril" ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Frown \Frown\, n. A wrinkling of the face in displeasure, rebuke, etc.; a sour, severe, or stern look; a scowl. His front yet threatens, and his frowns command. --Prior. Her very frowns are fairer far Than smiles of other maidens are. --H. Coleridge. Any ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. look angry or sullen, wrinkle one's forehead, as if to signal disapproval [syn: glower , lour , lower ]
Usage examples of frown.
His brother looked wearied, and his frown only deepened as Agro spoke to him.
To Amphionic music on some Cape sublime, Which frowns above the idle foam of Time.
I pulled onto Amsonia Lane and rumbled toward home, where we frown on interspecies propagation.
She frowned at her watch, evidently deciding that the quickest way to be rid of Andi was to begrudge her a few minutes.
Nom Anor frowned at this, uncomprehending, until a thick twist of black, greasy-looking smoke drifted through the image.
Dark, slashing eyebrows clashed in a frown over the bridge of his nose as Antonio hoped to stave off bad news.
He looked unenthusiastically round the room, and ended up gazing, with a frown, at an apex standing in one corner of the hall, talking to a group of uniformed apices perched on stoolseats around him.
I put Logan in a wheelbarrow and pushed him back up the farm lane to get more apples, frowning and chewing my tongue as I went.
There they sat, still and solemn as the judges of the Areopagus, not relieving the cruel tension by the faintest indication of a smile or a frown.
Rosy recognised as she frowned down at the faded Aubusson rug on the floor.
And frowns and fears from thee, Would not more swiftly flee Than Celtic wolves from the Ausonian shepherds.
And Balder too, the bloodless god looked down On me with frowning glances full of threats.
As Sir Leicester basks in his library and dozes over his newspaper, is there no influence in the house to startle him, not to say to make the very trees at Chesney Wold fling up their knotted arms, the very portraits frown, the very armour stir?
Irritably he noticed that Benjy was still hovering in the hall, so he frowned his piss-off-and-leave-us-alone frown.
Kane frowned slightly and continued to examine the bloodstone ring speculatively.