Usually means: Expression showing displeasure or sadness.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. frown: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. frown: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. frown: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. frown: Collins English Dictionary
  5. frown: Vocabulary.com
  6. Frown, frown: Wordnik
  7. frown: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. frown: Wiktionary
  9. frown: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. frown: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. frown: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Frown, frown: Dictionary.com
  13. frown (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. frown: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Frown (band), Frown: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Frown: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. frown: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. frown: Rhymezone
  19. frown: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. frown: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. frown: Free Dictionary
  22. frown: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. frown: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. frown: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. frown: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. frown: Idioms

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

(Note: See frowned as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A wrinkling of the forehead with the eyebrows brought together, typically indicating displeasure, severity, or concentration.
noun:  (Canada, US) A downturn of the corners of the mouth, typically expressing sadness.
verb:  (intransitive) To have a frown on one's face.
verb:  (intransitive, figurative) To manifest displeasure or disapprobation; to look with disfavour or threateningly.
verb:  (transitive) To repress or repel by expressing displeasure or disapproval; to rebuke with a look.
verb:  (transitive) To communicate by frowning.

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