From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Humancheekbonecheek‧bone /ˈtʃiːkbəʊn $ -boʊn/ noun [countable usually plural]HBHone of the two bones above your cheeks, just below your eyesShe had high cheekbones and green eyes.Examples from the Corpuscheekbone• Looking down at the curve of her cheekbone, still wet with tears, he suddenly wanted her, quite overwhelmingly.• One of her cheekbones had been crushed and the doctors were trying to reconstruct it.• He is tall and dark, his brown eyes intense above his high cheekbones.• Her eyes gleamed above those remarkable high cheekbones of hers.• Her skin was cleft with deep lines running from the jaw to the high juttingcheekbones.• His Navajocheekbonesdazzled; his classicRomanesquenose left one breathless.• A muscle near her right cheekbonefluttered at erraticintervals, and the nailpolish was chipped.• I remember, too, her strangely spacedcheekbones and severely cut hair.high cheekbones• Their narrow eyes and high cheekbones, their swarthy skins seem even more foreign in the firelight.• Despite the difference in their ages, the two women were strikingly alike, with small smooth-skinned faces and high cheekbones.• The nobleforehead, glitteringblue eyes, high cheekbones and well-formed beardsuggested the conquistador Cortes.• He has high cheekbones, and a longish nose.• She has high cheekbones and full lips.• Framed by the silverfur her face took on a glow that emphasized her high cheekbones.• Her eyes gleamed above those remarkable high cheekbones of hers.• I would recognize the slanted eyes, the dark glistening skin and the high cheekbones anywhere.• Her face seemed thinner, the high cheekbones more prominent somehow.