false teeth

English

Noun

false teeth pl (plural only)

dentures

Usage notes

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

Translations

a set of dentures

Chinese:
Mandarin: 假牙 (zh) (jiǎyá)
Danish: gebis (da) n, falske tænder c pl (obsolete), kunstige tænder c pl
Finnish: tekohampaat (fi), (colloquial) tekarit (fi)
French: denture artificielle f, dentier (fr) m
German: falsche Zähne m pl, dritte Zähne m pl

Greek: μασέλα (el) f (maséla)
Icelandic: falskar tennur f pl
Irish: fiacla bréige f pl
Japanese: 入れ歯 (いれば, ireba)
Portuguese: dentes postiços m pl
Russian: вставны́е зу́бы m pl (vstavnýje zúby)

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