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Definition of hair

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; "he combed his hair", "each hair consists of layers of dead keratinized cells".
• a very small distance or space; "they escaped by a hair's-breadth", "they lost the election by a whisker". Synonyms: hair's-breadth, hairsbreadth, whisker.
• filamentous hairlike growth on a plant; "peach fuzz". Synonyms: fuzz, tomentum.
• any of the cylindrical filaments characteristically growing from the epidermis of a mammal; "there is a hair in my soup". Synonyms: pilus.
• cloth woven from horsehair or camelhair; used for upholstery or stiffening in garments. Synonyms: haircloth.
• a filamentous projection or process on an organism.

Related words

beard, bristle, brow, bush, cilium, coat, coif, coiffure, cowlick, curl, down, eyebrow, eyelash, forelock, foretop, hairdo, hairstyle, lash, lock, mane, pelage, pile, pilus, ringlet, seta, supercilium, vibrissa, whisker, whorl.

Words nearby

air, chair, fair, haik, hail, hairy, heir, lair, pair.

Rhymes with

affair, air, altair, astaire, aware, bare, bear, beware, billionaire, blair, blare, care, chair, compare, concessionaire, dare, debonair, declare, despair, disrepair.