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# brow

«brow» in Mova's school dictionary: **your forehead, the part of your face above your eyes** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a brow, brows)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Your brow is your forehead, the part of your face above your eyes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brow/#m1)

2) A brow is an eyebrow: «She raised her brows». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brow/#m2)

3) The brow of a hill is the top of it, where it starts to slope down. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brow/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In stories «he wiped his brow» shows a character is hot or worried; «a furrowed brow» means wrinkles from thinking or worry. In safety, drivers are told not to overtake on the brow of a hill because they cannot see what is coming. Phrases: wipe your brow, knit your brows, furrowed brow, highbrow and lowbrow.

### examples

- He wiped the sweat from his brow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brow/#x1)
- She frowned and her brow wrinkled. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brow/#x2)
- The car slowed down at the brow of the hill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brow/#x3)
- Grandad raised his brows in surprise. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brow/#x4)
- With a furrowed brow, Tom stared at the maths problem. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brow/#x5)
- We could see the sea from the brow of the hill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brow/#x6)
- Perspiration hung like beads on his brow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brow/#x7)

### note

Rhymes with «cow», not «grow». Plural «brows». «Eyebrow» is the more usual everyday word for the hair above the eye.

### In the corpora

- [Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1061/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «brow» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brow/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.