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HEADWORD
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Dictionary entry overview: What does headword mean?
• HEADWORD (noun)
The noun HEADWORD has 2 senses:
1. a content word that can be qualified by a modifier
2. a word placed at the beginning of a line or paragraph (as in a dictionary entry)
Familiarity information: HEADWORD used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A content word that can be qualified by a modifier
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
head word; headword
Hypernyms ("headword" is a kind of...):
content word; open-class word (a word to which an independent meaning can be assigned)
Holonyms ("headword" is a part of...):
phrase (an expression consisting of one or more words forming a grammatical constituent of a sentence)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A word placed at the beginning of a line or paragraph (as in a dictionary entry)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("headword" is a kind of...):
word (a unit of language that native speakers can identify)
Holonyms ("headword" is a part of...):
dictionary entry; lexical entry (the entry in a dictionary of information about a word)
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