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say it: FAY-slift
facelift is a noun meaning "plastic surgery to remove wrinkles and other signs of aging from your face; an incision is made near the hair line and skin is pulled back and excess tissue is excised". It is pronounced /ˈfeɪˌslɪft/ — FAY-slift. It carries 2 recorded senses.
plastic surgery to remove wrinkles and other signs of aging from your face; an incision is made near the hair line and skin is pulled back and excess tissue is excised
“some actresses have more than one face lift”
a renovation that improves the outward appearance (as of a building) but usually does not involve major changes
“give your home a facelift”
“more than a facelift, the new model marks a fundamental change of direction”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for facelift come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.