head of hair
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2.0
- noun
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cabellera
- His full head of hair was silver, cut short to reveal the strong bones of the face.
- a full head of hair
- a thick head of hair
- a beautiful head of hair
He's handsome and a nice head of hair.
- He's handsome and a nice head of hair.
- I'm going to curl away and then in and I'm not going to go through the whole hair, the whole head of hair because it's really repetitive.
Examples
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And he had a beard and a full head of hair parted in the center.
Fiction book (2002) -
You have a nice full head of hair, honey.
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Look at that head of hair.
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You have such a nice head of hair.
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And what a lovely head of hair it is.
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You got a good head of hair.
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Matt has a great head of hair.
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At age 60, I still had a full head of hair and was confident I would never be bald.
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You really do have a smashing head of hair.
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You have such a nice head of hair that everyone compliments it.
Synonyms
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1.0
Thin strands that grow from the skin of people or animals, especially on the head
How Much Hair
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2.0
18
3.2
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a person's entire growth of hair covering the scalp' is directly derivable from combining 'head' (the body part) with 'of' (a possessive/partitive link) and 'hair' (the strands). This simple compositional possessive pattern is regular in English and will be immediately interpretable by a B1 learner who knows the constituents.
Etymology
Head of hair paints a simple picture: a head with hair growing on it, meaning the whole amount of hair there. So, head of hair means 'all the hair on a person's head'.