permanent wave

1. 1.

   a series of waves in the hair made by applying heat and chemicals

   Synonymspermanentperm

   Broaderwave

Questions about permanent wave

What does permanent wave mean?

permanent wave means "a series of waves in the hair made by applying heat and chemicals".

What is another word for permanent wave?

Close synonyms include permanent, perm. 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 permanent wave a common word?

permanent wave 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.