false teeth

English

Noun

false teeth pl (plural only)

1. Dentures.

Usage notes

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

Translations

a set of dentures — see also denture

Cherokee: ᏗᏓᏅᏙᏍᏗ (didanvdosdi) 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 (de) m pl, dritte Zähne m pl Greek: μασέλα (el) f (maséla) Hungarian: műfogsor (hu) Icelandic: falskar tennur f pl Irish: fiacla bréige f pl Japanese: 入れ歯 (ja) (いれば, ireba) Portuguese: dentes postiços m pl Romanian: dantură falsă (ro) f Russian: вставны́е зу́бы m pl (vstavnýje zúby) Swedish: tandprotes c, löständer (sv) pl