Illustration of hair
- 1 shaft
- 2 sebaceous gland
- 3 epidermis
- 4 dermis
- 5 hair follicle
- 6 bulb
- 7 papilla
often attributive
1
2
3
a
: a minute distance or amount
won by a hair
b
: a precise degree
aligned to a hair
5
: a filamentous structure that resembles hair
leaf hair
see also in one's hair, out of one's hair
Examples of hair in a Sentence
He plucked a hair from his arm.
There are dog hairs all over my coat.
The hair on her arms is blond.
He has a lot of hair on his chest.
He got his hair cut last week.
He has a thick head of hair.
a balding man who is losing his hair
He won the race by a hair.
He was a hair off on the count.
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Joseph Quinn’s George Harrison is a late-period take, with the Stranger Things actor sporting long hair and a bushy beard, while Harris Dickinson’s mid-period John Lennon sports his iconic round glasses, shaggy, shoulder-length hair and a jeans jacket.
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Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 30 Jan. 2026
Donning facial hair, bowler hats and narrow ties, a group of women costumed as men appear to pay court to the woman seated in the center of this photo, taken about 1905.
—Naperville Sun, Chicago Tribune, 30 Jan. 2026
Women adorned their hair in ribbons and men wore Dodgers caps to shield their faces from the sun, the crowd representing an array of identities that make up Los Angeles.
—Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2026
Inside The Lot at Formosa, Young’s hair, once a mullet with stark blond streaks, was now colored black and curled in coils down her back.
—Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 30 Jan. 2026
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Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 30 Jan. 2026
Donning facial hair, bowler hats and narrow ties, a group of women costumed as men appear to pay court to the woman seated in the center of this photo, taken about 1905.
—Naperville Sun, Chicago Tribune, 30 Jan. 2026
Women adorned their hair in ribbons and men wore Dodgers caps to shield their faces from the sun, the crowd representing an array of identities that make up Los Angeles.
—Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2026
Inside The Lot at Formosa, Young’s hair, once a mullet with stark blond streaks, was now colored black and curled in coils down her back.
—Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 30 Jan. 2026
See All Example Sentences for hair
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“Hair.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hair. Accessed 3 Feb. 2026.
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hair
noun
ˈha(ə)r 
ˈhe(ə)r
1
a
: a slender threadlike growth from the skin of an animal
especially
: one that usually contains coloring and forms part of the characteristic coat of a mammal
b
: a covering or growth of hairs of an animal or a body part
2
: a tiny distance or amount
won by a hair
3
: a threadlike structure that resembles hair
leaf hairs
haired
adjective
ˈha(ə)rd,
ˈhe(ə)rd
hairless
adjective
ˈha(ə)r-ləs,
ˈhe(ə)r-
Medical Definition
hair
nounoften attributive
1
: a slender threadlike outgrowth of the epidermis of an animal
especially
: one of the usually pigmented filaments that form the characteristic coat of a mammal
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