Thesaurus:nose

Thesaurus

nose

English

Noun

Sense: the organ of the face used to smell things

Synonyms

• nose
• beak
• beezer
• boko (dated, UK)
• conk
• honker
• hooter
• neb
• pecker (UK)
• proboscis
• schnozz
• schnozzle
• schnozzola
• schnoz
• smeller
• sneck (UK)
• sniffer
• snitch
• snoot
• snotbox
• snout
• trunk (of an elephant)

Hyponyms

• aquiline nose
• button nose
• hooknose
• pug nose
• Roman nose
• snub nose

Meronyms

• bridge
• columella
• greater alar cartilage
• naris
• nasal bone
• nasal cavity
• nasal septum
• nose bridge
• nosewing
• nostril
• septum

Holonyms

• countenance    [⇒ thesaurus]
• face
• head    [⇒ thesaurus]
• body    [⇒ thesaurus]
• muzzle

Various

• brownnose
• cut off one's nose to spite one's face
• get up someone's nose
• hard-nosed
• in front of one's nose
• I've got your nose
• keep one's nose clean
• keep one's pecker up (UK)
• look down one's nose
• the nose knows
• nose out of joint
• nose to the grindstone
• no skin off one's nose
• on the nose
• pay through the nose
• plain as the nose on one's face
• poke one's nose into
• powder one's nose
• see past the end of one's nose
• stick one's nose in
• stick one's nose into
• toffee-nosed
• under one's nose
• win by a nose

See also

• rhinology (study of the nose)
• nasology
• otorhinolaryngology (ear, nose and throat)

Further reading

• “nose” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “nose” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.