Countenance
['kaʊnt(ə)nəns;-tɪn-] or ['kaʊntənəns]
Definition
(noun.) the appearance conveyed by a person's face; 'a pleasant countenance'; 'a stern visage'.
(noun.) the human face (`kisser' and `smiler' and `mug' are informal terms for `face' and `phiz' is British).
Edited by Ervin--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To encourage; to favor; to approve; to aid; to abet.
(v. t.) To make a show of; to pretend.
Edited by Hattie
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Aspect, look, mien, expression of the face.[2]. Favor, encouragement, patronage, support, aid, assistance, sanction, approbation, approval.
v. a. Approve, sanction, support, aid, abet, assist, favor, encourage, patronize, befriend, stand by, side with, take the side of.
Typed by Eliza
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Aid, abet, encourage, support
ANT:Discountenance
SYN:Help, aid, abet, favor, sanction, patronize, support, encourage
ANT:Oppose, confront, discourage, discountenance, browbeat
Checker: Norris
Definition
n. the face: the expression of the face: appearance.—v.t. to favour or approve.—n. Coun′tenancer.—Change countenance to change the expression of the face; His countenance fell he became dejected or angry; In countenance unabashed—opp. to Out of countenance.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of a beautiful and ingenuous countenance, you may safely look for some pleasure to fall to your lot in the near future; but to behold an ugly and scowling visage, portends unfavorable transactions.
Checker: Sondra
Examples
- Chloe's countenance fell. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- When others uttered it she changed countenance--I know she did. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- You should do so, Sir,' said Pott, with a severe countenance. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Her countenance expressed the deepest sorrow that is consistent with resignation. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Nothing but concern for Elizabeth could enable Bingley to keep his countenance. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Mrs. Sowerberry emerged from a little room behind the shop, and presented the form of a short, then, squeezed-up woman, with a vixenish countenance. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- She raised her eyes to my face, on being thus addressed, and her fingers plied their work, and she looked at me with an unmoved countenance. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Mrs. Norris, whose attachment seemed to augment with the demerits of her niece, would have had her received at home and countenanced by them all. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- He never said so much to me, it is true; but he always received me very kindly at his house, and openly countenanced my courtship. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Mr. Thesiger has always countenanced him, said Mrs. Hackbutt. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- One or two countenances fell. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The days now passed as peaceably as before, with the sole alteration, that joy had taken place of sadness in the countenances of my friends. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- My life had hitherto been remarkably secluded and domestic; and this had given me invincible repugnance to new countenances. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Never certainly have I seen a plainer confession of guilt upon human countenances. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Now, in the South we have our poor, but there is not that terrible expression in their countenances of a sullen sense of injustice which I see here. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Some hours passed thus, while they, by their countenances, expressed joy, the cause of which I did not comprehend. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- The eagerness both of attention and intention, exhibited in all the countenances, made them a most impressive sight. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
Editor: Melinda