smile
Forms
- Plural
- smiles
- present (v1)
- smile
- past (v2)
- smiled
- past participle (v3)
- smiled
- present participle
- smiling
- 3rd person singular
- smiles
Definitions
1.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.
- He always puts a smile on my face.
- She had a smile on her face.
- He has a sinister smile.
2.Favour; propitious regard.
- Thanks for always making me smile.
1.To express by smiling.
2.To express amusement, pleasure, or love and kindness.
3.To look cheerful and joyous; to have an appearance suited to excite joy.
- The sun smiled down from a clear summer sky.
4.To have (a smile) on one's face.
- I don't know what he's smiling about.
- When you smile, the whole world smiles with you.
- If a man smiles all the time he's probably selling something that doesn't work.
Frequency
Overall
Common· #1308
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Common
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”).