false teeth

English

Noun

false teeth pl (plural only)

1. 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 — 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 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