citation form

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Noun

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citation form - the form of a word that heads a lexical entry and is alphabetized in a dictionary entry word, main entry word descriptor, form, signifier, word form - the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something; "the inflected forms of a word can be represented by a stem and a list of inflections to be attached" dictionary entry, lexical entry - the entry in a dictionary of information about a word