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1. tonsure

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Usually means: Shaving head, religious ritual symbol.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word tonsure:

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  1. tonsure: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. tonsure: Merriam-Webster
  3. tonsure: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. tonsure: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. tonsure: Collins English Dictionary
  6. tonsure: Vocabulary.com
  7. tonsure: Wordnik
  8. tonsure: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. tonsure: Wiktionary
  10. tonsure: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. tonsure: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. tonsure: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. tonsure: Dictionary.com
  14. tonsure: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Tonsure (brand), Tonsure: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Tonsure: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. tonsure: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. tonsure: Rhymezone
  19. Tonsure: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. tonsure: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. tonsure: FreeDictionary.org
  22. tonsure: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  23. tonsure: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. tonsure: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. Tonsure: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. TONSURE: The Britannia Lexicon (Middle Ages Glossary)

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  1. tonsure: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Tonsure: Catholic Encyclopedia

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ verb:  (Christianity, Buddhism) To shave the crown of the head as a sign of humility and religious vocation.
▸ noun:  A ritual shaving of this kind.
▸ noun:  The hairstyle and characteristic bald patch resulting from being tonsured.

Similar:
toivel, sit shiva, tovel, shuckle, bentsh, shecht, sabbatise, duchen, Haredize, posken, more...

Opposite:
hirsute, hirsutism, hirsutophilia

Phrases:
clerical tonsure, more...

Adjectives:
clerical, first, monastic, roman, ecclesiastical, priestly, celtic, large, coronal, circular, simple
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Similar:
toivel, sit shiva, tovel, shuckle, bentsh, shecht, sabbatise, duchen, Haredize, posken, more...

Opposite:
hirsute, hirsutism, hirsutophilia

Phrases:
clerical tonsure, more...

Adjectives:
clerical, first, monastic, roman, ecclesiastical, priestly, celtic, large, coronal, circular, simple



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