denture
2 synonyms for denture, grouped by meaning and by how common each one is.
Noun — A person's full set of teeth, thought of as a single unit.
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Synonyms by Meaning
2. noun
A false tooth, or a set of false teeth, made to replace missing ones.
“After the mouth surgery, she was fitted with a denture.”
Etymology
Taken from French denture ("set of teeth"), from Latin dens, dentis ("tooth") + -urus, -ura, -urum, a suffix implying a set.
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