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# cheekbone

«cheekbone» in Mova's school dictionary: **the bones at the top of your cheeks, just below your eyes** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a cheekbone, cheekbones)

### meaning for a pupil

Your cheekbones are the bones at the top of your cheeks, just below your eyes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cheekbone/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons on the skeleton pupils find the cheekbones on the skull. In stories «high cheekbones» describes someone's face. In safety and first aid, a blow to the cheekbone can cause a bad bruise.

### examples

- She has high cheekbones. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cheekbone/#x1)
- The ball hit him just below the cheekbone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cheekbone/#x2)
- Feel your cheekbones under your eyes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cheekbone/#x3)
- The skull has two cheekbones. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cheekbone/#x4)
- Her cheekbone was bruised after the fall. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cheekbone/#x5)
- The artist drew shadows under the cheekbones. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cheekbone/#x6)

### note

One word. Usually used in the plural for both sides of the face. The proper science name is the «zygomatic bone».

### Trees and pragmatics

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