mustache

1. 1.

   an unshaved growth of hair on the upper lip

   “he looked younger after he shaved off his mustache”

   Synonymsmoustache

   Broaderfacial hair

   Narrowersoup-strainermustachiowalrus mustache

   Part ofbeard

Other forms of mustache

plural

mustaches·

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.

Questions about mustache

What does mustache mean?

mustache means "an unshaved growth of hair on the upper lip".

How many syllables are in mustache?

mustache has 2 syllables: mus-tache. The stress falls on "mus". In IPA it is /ˈmʌˌstæʃ/.

What is another word for mustache?

Close synonyms include moustache. 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 mustache a common word?

mustache is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with mustache?

2 words rhyme with mustache. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.