English dictionary
hair
nounPronunciation
hɛə
Audio pronunciation
Parts of speech
Definitions
noun
- a filamentous projection or process on an organism
noun
- cloth woven from horsehair or camelhair; used for upholstery or stiffening in garments
noun
- any of the cylindrical filaments characteristically growing from the epidermis of a mammal
noun
- a covering for the body (or parts of it) consisting of a dense growth of threadlike structures (as on the human head); helps to prevent heat loss
noun
- filamentous hairlike growth on a plant
noun
- a very small distance or space
Example sentences
there is a hair in my soup
he combed his hair
each hair consists of layers of dead keratinized cells
peach fuzz
they escaped by a hair's breadth
they lost the election by a whisker