tooth socket

1. 1.

   a bony socket in the alveolar ridge that holds a tooth

   Synonymsalveolus

   Broadersocket

   Part ofalveolar ridge

Questions about tooth socket

What does tooth socket mean?

tooth socket means "a bony socket in the alveolar ridge that holds a tooth".

What is another word for tooth socket?

Close synonyms include alveolus. 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 tooth socket a common word?

tooth socket 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.