head·word

(hĕd′wûrd′)

1. A word, phrase, or name, usually set in boldface or other distinctive type, that serves as the heading for an entry in a dictionary, encyclopedia, or similar reference work. Also called entry word.

2. Grammar A word that may be modified by an adjunct.

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headword

(ˈhɛdˌwɜːd)

(Journalism & Publishing) a key word placed at the beginning of a line, paragraph, etc, as in a dictionary entry

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head•word

(ˈhɛdˌwɜrd)

n.

1. a word or phrase appearing as the heading of a dictionary or encyclopedia entry, etc.

2. catchword (def. 2).

3. a word that serves as the head of a grammatical construction.

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun	1.	headword - a content word that can be qualified by a modifier head word content word, open-class word - a word to which an independent meaning can be assigned phrase - an expression consisting of one or more words forming a grammatical constituent of a sentence
	2.	headword - a word placed at the beginning of a line or paragraph (as in a dictionary entry) word - a unit of language that native speakers can identify; "words are the blocks from which sentences are made"; "he hardly said ten words all morning" dictionary entry, lexical entry - the entry in a dictionary of information about a word

Translations

lema

lemma

headword

[ˈhedwɜːd] N → lema m, cabeza f de artículo

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headword

[ˈhɛdwɜː^rd] n (in dictionary) → entrée fhead wound n → blessure f à la tête

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References in periodicals archive

Meritt (1996), on which it draws for headword spelling.

Nuevas perspectivas en la derivacion cero y las alternancias del ingles antiguo

That dictionary merely lists WONKERY as a run-on entry for the headword WONK, which it defines as "a studious or hard-working person, especially one who is obsessively devoted to academic studies at the expense of social activities; a nerd".

NEW TRANSPOSALS OF NEW YORK

The headword of each entry consists of a single word or multi-word unit in English, followed by its abbreviation or the specification British English/American English when needed.

PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION--CREATING A DICTIONARY FOR HOTEL OPERATIONS

Crystal then compared this list with a list of rhymes for each headword and its inflections, collated from the complete Shakespearean canon including the poems.

The Oxford Dictionary of Original Shakespearean Pronunciation

It is stated under the headword bid [v.sup.1] in OED3 that OE biddan 'to ask' and beodan 'to command' merged completely in the course of the fourteenth to the fifteenth century.

Some peculiar forms of old English verbs

(11) The text is in alphabetical order by the headword of the dream, though the order of headwords within each letter is less predictable, and there are some other oddities: notably, the Latin preposition in, rather than the nominal object of the preposition, serves as the headword for most of the I section.

A previously unidentified Somniale Danielis text in Takamiya MS 33 with an updated handlist of Latin Somniale texts from England

Finally, my biggest complaint about the Oxford A-Z Of English Usage: its final headword is 'yourself'.

Worried about mid-day..