Aquiline Definition

ăkwə-līn, -lĭn
adjective
Relating to or having the characteristics of an eagle.
American Heritage
Of or like an eagle.
Webster's New World
Curved or hooked like an eagle's beak.
An aquiline nose.
Webster's New World

Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of eagles.

Frank's aquiline nose jutted out from underneath his glasses.
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Origin of Aquiline

  • From Latin aquilīnus, from aquila (“eagle”)

    From Wiktionary

  • Latin aquilīnus from aquila eagle

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Aquiline Sentence Examples

  • He was heavy of jaw with a wide forehead and an aquiline nose set between two large eyes.

  • In person Machiavelli was of middle height, black-haired, with rather a small head, very bright eyes and slightly aquiline nose.

  • It is distinguished by a long head, a long face, a narrow aquiline nose, blue eyes, very light hair and great stature.

  • A great shock of rough, dusky, dark hair; bright, laughing, hazel eyes; massive aquiline face, most massive yet most delicate; of sallow brown complexion, almost Indian-looking, clothes cynically loose, free-and-easy, smokes infinite tobacco.

  • The face is oval, with low forehead, high cheek-bones, long eyes sloping outward towards the temples, fleshy lips, nose wide and in some cases flattish but in others aquiline, coarsely moulded features, with a stolid and gloomy expression.

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Words Starting With

AAQAQU

Words Ending With

ENEINE

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