eye socket

Questions about eye socket

What does eye socket mean?

eye socket means "the bony cavity in the skull containing the eyeball".

What is another word for eye socket?

Close synonyms include orbit, cranial orbit, orbital cavity. 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 eye socket a common word?

eye socket 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.