noun, verb
noun (formal or literary) a person's face or their expression:
her calmly smiling countenance * a young man of handsome countenance
verb (formal) to support sth or agree to sth happening: [VN] The committee refused to countenance his proposals. [also V-ing, VN-ing]
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
Where does this definition of countenance come from?
This entry for countenance is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does countenance appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — countenance appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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Lughet is a free trilingual dictionary covering nearly five million entries across Uyghur, Chinese, and English, drawn from more than ten source dictionaries and corpora.
