Meaning & Definition of Hair in English

1. A covering for the body (or parts of it) consisting of a dense growth of threadlike structures (as on the human head)

• Helps to prevent heat loss

• "He combed his hair"

• "Each hair consists of layers of dead keratinized cells"

2. A very small distance or space

• "They escaped by a hair's-breadth"

• "They lost the election by a whisker"

3. Filamentous hairlike growth on a plant

• "Peach fuzz"

4. Any of the cylindrical filaments characteristically growing from the epidermis of a mammal

• "There is a hair in my soup"

5. Cloth woven from horsehair or camelhair

• Used for upholstery or stiffening in garments

6. A filamentous projection or process on an organism