Usually means: Facial hair extending from hairline.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word sideburns:

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  1. sideburns: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. sideburns: Merriam-Webster
  3. sideburns: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. sideburns: Collins English Dictionary
  5. sideburns: Vocabulary.com
  6. Sideburns, sideburns: Wordnik
  7. sideburns: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. sideburns: Wiktionary
  9. sideburns: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. sideburns: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. sideburns: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. sideburns: Dictionary.com
  13. sideburns: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. sideburns: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Sideburns (film), Sideburns: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Sideburns: The Word Detective
  17. sideburns: TheFreeDictionary.com

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sideburns: A Word A Day

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sideburns: Urban Dictionary

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▸ noun:  Facial hair reaching from the top of the head down the side of the face to the side of the chin.

Similar:
mutton chop, Burnside, side-whiskers, beard, neckbeard, jaw beard, Shenandoah beard, chin curtain, chinstrap, goatee, more...

Opposite:
clean-shaven, beardless, smooth-cheeked

Types:
mutton chops, chops, whiskers, burns, facial hair, more...

Adjectives:
long, bushy, white, thick, black, gray, muttonchop, chop, dark, short, heavy


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Similar:
mutton chop, Burnside, side-whiskers, beard, neckbeard, jaw beard, Shenandoah beard, chin curtain, chinstrap, goatee, more...

Opposite:
clean-shaven, beardless, smooth-cheeked

Types:
mutton chops, chops, whiskers, burns, facial hair, more...

Adjectives:
long, bushy, white, thick, black, gray, muttonchop, chop, dark, short, heavy



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