Synonyms of snout

snout

noun

ˈsnau̇t 

as in nose

the part of the face bearing the nostrils and nasal cavity

dogs and their owners must grow to resemble one another, as that man and his basset hound have remarkably similar snouts

Synonyms & Similar Words

• nose
• proboscis
• nozzle
• beak
• schnozzle
• smeller
• honker
• schnoz
• conk
• snoot
• neb
• pug
• pugnose

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of snout

Shirah sports her own purple bike, adorned with a piggy snout in front and a tail in back to match her ears, an idea her father came up with to easily find his children in a swarm of tens of thousands of riders. — Virginia Barreda, Des Moines Register, 21 July 2026

The animal had a hump over his shoulders where the gray color showed the lightest, and its nose and snout were long and tapering. — Frank C. Hibben, Outdoor Life, 15 July 2026

However, the snout of an alligator is more blunt and u-shaped. — Greta Cross, USA Today, 10 July 2026

With their snouts, the pigs would feel each beat of my heart the way a human would feel a silver dollar that had been flipped in the air then caught in an open palm, flipped and caught, coming up heads or tails, whichever side had been called when the coin was at its apogee. — Will MacKin, New Yorker, 28 June 2026