smile
Meanings
noun
- A facial expression comprised by flexing the muscles of both ends of one's mouth, often showing the front teeth, without vocalisation, and in humans is a common involuntary or voluntary expression of happiness, pleasure, amusement, goodwill, or anxiety.
- Favour; propitious regard.
- A drink bought by one person for another.
verb
- To have (a smile) on one's face.
- To express by smiling.
- To express amusement, pleasure, or love and kindness.
- To look cheerful and joyous; to have an appearance suited to excite joy.
- To be propitious or favourable; to countenance.
- Of ackee fruit: to open fully, indicating that it is no longer toxic, and ready to be picked.
noun
- Abbreviation of small incision lenticule extraction: corrective eye surgery in which a femtosecond laser photodisrupts ("carves") a lenticule of tissue within the corneal stroma that is then extracted through a small arc-shaped incision in the side of the cornea.
Pronunciation
Word forms
Etymology
From Middle English smilen (“to smile”), from Middle Low German *smîlen (“to smile”), from Middle High German smielen, from Old High German smielēn, from Proto-West Germanic *smīlēn, from Proto-Germanic *smīlāną (“to smile”), from Proto-Indo-European *smey- (“to laugh, be glad, wonder”). Cognate with Danish smile, Swedish smila, Faroese smíla (“to smile”); also Saterland Frisian smielje (“to smile”), Low German smielen (“to smile”), Dutch smuilen (“to smile”), Middle High German smielen (“to smile”). Related also to Old High German smierōn (“to smile”), Old English smerian (“to laugh at”), Old English smercian, smearcian ("to smile"; > English smirk), Latin mīror (“to wonder at”).
Synonyms
Related words
Derived words
This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.