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denture

noun
/ˈdɛntjə(ɹ)/UK/ˈdɛnt͡ʃə(ɹ)/US

Etymology

From French denture (“set of teeth”), from Latin dens, dentis (“tooth”) + -urus, -ura, -urum, a suffix implying a set.

  1. derived from dens
  2. derived from denture — “set of teeth”

Definitions

  1. A set of teeth, the teeth viewed as a unit.

  2. An artificial replacement of one or more teeth.

    • After the mouth surgery, she was fitted with a denture.

  3. A complete replacement of all teeth in a mouth.

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for denture. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA