1
: a set of teeth
2
: an artificial replacement for one or more teeth
especially
: a set of false teeth
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Investigators also noted a paper dinner napkin found near his body and that Antonio used dentures that were missing, per court documents.
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Christina Coulter, PEOPLE, 30 Oct. 2025
One man waved his Fixodent denture cream before the county commissioners, suggesting that his own experience showed what would happen if local communities stopped treatment.
—Anna Clark, ProPublica, 13 Oct. 2025
Trapped in a nursing home — a world of bingo, pills, dentures, and dementia — an elderly man
longs for freedom beyond its walls, in a magical-realist fable of longing and escape.
—Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 17 Sep. 2025
In the late 1930s and early ’40s, Rama filled her drawings with things used by or serving as surrogates for the body—prosthetic limbs, dentures, razors, urinals, and scrubbing brushes.
—Elizabeth Mangini, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2025
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Christina Coulter, PEOPLE, 30 Oct. 2025
One man waved his Fixodent denture cream before the county commissioners, suggesting that his own experience showed what would happen if local communities stopped treatment.
—Anna Clark, ProPublica, 13 Oct. 2025
Trapped in a nursing home — a world of bingo, pills, dentures, and dementia — an elderly man
longs for freedom beyond its walls, in a magical-realist fable of longing and escape.
—Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 17 Sep. 2025
In the late 1930s and early ’40s, Rama filled her drawings with things used by or serving as surrogates for the body—prosthetic limbs, dentures, razors, urinals, and scrubbing brushes.
—Elizabeth Mangini, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for denture
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“Denture.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/denture. Accessed 3 Nov. 2025.
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denture
noun
den·ture
ˈden-chər 
: a set of teeth
especially
: a partial or complete set of false teeth
Medical Definition
denture
noun
den·ture
ˈden-chər
1
: a set of teeth
2
: an artificial replacement for one or more teeth
especially
: a set of false teeth
called also dental plate
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