Usually means: Strong, prominent jawline; typically masculine.
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We found 17 dictionaries that define the word Lantern-jawed:

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  1. lantern-jawed: Merriam-Webster
  2. lantern-jawed: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. lantern-jawed, lantern-jawed: Collins English Dictionary
  4. lantern-jawed: Vocabulary.com
  5. lantern-jawed: Wordnik
  6. lantern-jawed: Wiktionary
  7. lantern-jawed: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. Lantern-jawed, lantern-jawed: Dictionary.com
  9. Lantern-jawed: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. lantern-jawed: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. lantern-jawed: Rhymezone
  12. Lantern-jawed: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. lantern-jawed: FreeDictionary.org
  14. lantern-jawed: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. lantern-jawed: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lantern-jawed: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lantern-jawed: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (lantern-jawed)

▸ adjective:  Having a protruding or jutting lower jaw.

Similar:
prognathous, prognathic, hypognathous, blue-jawed, jut-jawed, square-jawed, jawlike, tut-mouthed, squarejawed, jowly, more...

Opposite:
round-faced, chubby-cheeked, double-chinned

Types:
gaunt, lanky, rawboned, scraggy, thin, angular, more...

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Similar:
prognathous, prognathic, hypognathous, blue-jawed, jut-jawed, square-jawed, jawlike, tut-mouthed, squarejawed, jowly, more...

Opposite:
round-faced, chubby-cheeked, double-chinned

Types:
gaunt, lanky, rawboned, scraggy, thin, angular, more...



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