lineament
pronunciation
How to pronounce lineament in British English:
UK ['lɪnɪəmənt]
How to pronounce lineament in American English:
US ['lɪnɪrmənt]
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- Noun:
- a characteristic property that defines the apparent individual nature of something
- the characteristic parts of a person's face: eyes and nose and mouth and chin
Word Origin
- lineament (n.)
- early 15c., "distinctive feature of the body, outline," from Middle French lineament, from Latin lineamentum "contour, outline," literally "a line, stroke, mark," from lineare "to reduce to a straight line," from linea (see line (n.)). Figurative sense of "a characteristic" is attested from 1630s.
Example
- 1. The beat found his lineament .
- 2. This vegetation lineament is along the banning fault .
- 3. The young girl had regular and delicate lineament .
- 4. Fortune reigns in gifts of the world , not in lineament of nature .
- 5. Pepople 's lineament is irreversible but pepople 's spirit is reversible .