sideburn

1. 1.

   facial hair that has grown down the side of a man's face in front of the ears (especially when the rest of the beard is shaved off)

   Synonymsburnsidemutton chopside-whiskers

   Broaderfacial hair

Other forms of sideburn

plural

sideburns·

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 sideburn

What does sideburn mean?

sideburn means "facial hair that has grown down the side of a man's face in front of the ears (especially when the rest of the beard is shaved off)".

How many syllables are in sideburn?

sideburn has 3 syllables: si-de-burn. The stress falls on "si".

What is another word for sideburn?

Close synonyms include burnside, mutton chop, side-whiskers. 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 sideburn a common word?

sideburn 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.