face cream

1. 1.

   a cream used cosmetically (mostly by women) for softening and cleaning the skin

   Synonymscold creamcoldcreamvanishing cream

   Broadercream

Questions about face cream

What does face cream mean?

face cream means "a cream used cosmetically (mostly by women) for softening and cleaning the skin".

What is another word for face cream?

Close synonyms include cold cream, coldcream, vanishing cream. 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 face cream a common word?

face cream 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.