external ear

1. 1.

   the part of the ear visible externally

   Synonymsouter ear

   Broaderexternal organ

   Part ofauditory apparatus

   Partsauditory meatusauricle

Questions about external ear

What does external ear mean?

external ear means "the part of the ear visible externally".

What is another word for external ear?

Close synonyms include outer ear. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is external ear a common word?

external ear is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.