denture

From French denture (“set of teeth”), from Latin dens, dentis (“tooth”) + -urus, -ura, -urum, a suffix implying a set.

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• Rhymes: -ɛntʃə(ɹ)

denture (plural dentures)

1. a set of teeth, the teeth viewed as a unit
2. an artificial replacement of one or more teeth
3. (often in the plural) a complete replacement of all teeth in a mouth

The use of the term dentures rather than the term false teeth was once considered "non-U".

• (artificial teeth): choppers, false teeth

• denture adhesive
• denture cleanser

• detuner, retuned, tenured, untreed

denture f (plural dentures)

1. denture

• “denture”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.