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When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the 'freedom of the press' goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.
Vladimir Lenin

Meaning of "headlong" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF HEADLONG

headlong  [ˈhɛdˌlɒŋ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HEADLONG

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Headlong can act as an adjective and an adverb.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

The adverb is an invariable part of the sentence that can change, explain or simplify a verb or another adverb.

WHAT DOES HEADLONG MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of headlong in the English dictionary

The first definition of headlong in the dictionary is with the head foremost; headfirst. Other definition of headlong is with great haste. Headlong is also very steep; precipitous.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH HEADLONG


age-long
ˈeɪdʒˌlɒŋ
cacholong
ˈkætʃəˌlɒŋ
daylong
ˈdeɪˌlɒŋ
endlong
ˈɛndˌlɒŋ
flatlong
ˈflætˌlɒŋ
furlong
ˈfɜːˌlɒŋ
hourlong
ˈaʊəˌlɒŋ
lifelong
ˈlaɪfˌlɒŋ
livelong
ˈlɪvˌlɒŋ
monthlong
ˈmʌnθˌlɒŋ
nightlong
ˈnaɪtˌlɒŋ
oblong
ˈɒbˌlɒŋ
oolong
ˈuːˌlɒŋ
passalong
ˈpɑːsəˌlɒŋ
sidelong
ˈsaɪdˌlɒŋ
sing-along
ˈsɪŋəˌlɒŋ
summer-long
ˈsʌmərˌlɒŋ
tagalong
ˈtæɡəˌlɒŋ
weeklong
ˈwiːkˌlɒŋ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HEADLONG

headlamp
headland
headlease
headless
headlessness
headlight
headlike
headline
headline news
headline rate
headline rate of inflation
headline-grabbing
headliner
headlines
headlock
headman
headmaster
headmasterly
headmastership
headmen

WORDS THAT END LIKE HEADLONG

all along
as broad as it is long
before long
belong
come along
Geelong
get along
go along
klong
long
play along
prolong
push along
run along
schlong
Shillong
sing along
so long
string along
yearlong

Synonyms and antonyms of headlong in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «HEADLONG»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «headlong» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of headlong

Translation of «headlong» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HEADLONG

Find out the translation of headlong to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of headlong from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «headlong» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

迅猛地
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

precipitadamente
570 millions of speakers

English

headlong
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

सिर के बल
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

بتهور
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

стремглав
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

rapidamente
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

হঠকারী
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

la tête la première
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tajam
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

überstürzt
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

迅速に
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

성급하게
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Headlong
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

vội
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கண்மூடித்தனமான
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

ठोसा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

paldır küldür
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

a capofitto
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

na oślep
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

стрімголов
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

cu capul înainte
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ολοταχώς
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

krans
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

huvudstupa
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

hodestups
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of headlong

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HEADLONG»

The term «headlong» is regularly used and occupies the 68.361 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HEADLONG» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «headlong» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «headlong» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about headlong

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9 QUOTES WITH «HEADLONG»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word headlong.
1
Thomas P.M. Barnett
China's headlong rush to industrialize was pursued with the most Marxist of prejudices - bending nature to man's will. That's a desperately hard trick to pull off when one fifth of humanity, having previously subsisted on 7 percent of the world's freshwater supply, decides that it wants to instantaneously increase its caloric intake.
2
Jean Cocteau
There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He returns headlong to his beard.
3
Ben Daniels
I'm a great candidate for why arts funding shouldn't be cut, because I had no experience other than what was at school, I'm from a working-class town, there were no theaters, and the cinema closed when I was a kid. Anything that gave me a voice or a way to express myself I went running headlong toward.
4
Michael Horton
Evangelicalism as a movement is rushing headlong toward theological ambiguity, which is another way of saying apostasy.
5
Eric Johnston
Most government officials are rushing headlong to solve the problems of 50 years ago, with their ears assailed by the sound of snails whizzing by.
6
Vladimir Lenin
When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the 'freedom of the press' goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.
7
Gilbert Parker
He came by a leap to the goal of purpose, not by the toilsome steps of reason. On the instant his headlong spirit declared his purpose: this was the one being for him in all the world: at this altar he would light a lamp of devotion, and keep it burning forever.
8
Christina Romer
Cold-turkey deficit reduction would cause a significant recession. A recent analysis by the Congressional Budget Office estimated that going headlong over the cliff would cause our gross domestic product, which has been growing at an annual rate of around 2 percent, to fall at a rate of 2.9 percent in the first half of 2013.
9
Thomas Willis
Sometimes a great wound or concussion of the head, especially which happens by falling headlong from an high place, brings a prejudice and weakness to the animal faculty, dulling the understanding.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HEADLONG»

Discover the use of headlong in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to headlong and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Headlong
'A knife-edge thriller/farce about a missing Bruegel masterpiece and its rightful custodians.
Michael Frayn, 2009
2
Headlong: A Novel
How is Kati to cope with a mother constantly on the verge of suicide? This finely wrought tale of love and conflict casts a searchlight into dark areas - how people deal with ageing, loss, death, and grief.
Susan Varga, 2009
3
Headlong
High school sophomore Lily opens herself to new possibilities when, despite warnings, she becomes friends with "ghetto girl" Hazel, a new student at the private Vaughn School which Lily, following in her elitist mother's footsteps, has ...
Kathe Koja, 2008
4
Headlong Through Life
This is the tragic real life story of the author, Dick C. It begins at approximately 4 years of age. The book ends at 45 years of age when Dick C. reaches utter despair and walks himself into a treatment center.
Dick C., 2003
5
Headlong through life: the story of Isadora Duncan
"In this book, Ean Woods tells the whole life-story of Isadora Duncan, from her childhood in the raffish frontier town that was early San Francisco to her tragic death.
Ean Wood, 2006
6
Headlong Into Love
On the way to stop one wedding, she just might find herself in the midst of another!
Ann Jennings, 2014
7
Headlong
Post-cyberpunk SF that recalls the darkness of M. John Harrison and the wild visual imagination of China Mieville and Hannu Rajaniemi, HEADLONG felt ahead of the curve when first published and now serves to show just why Simon Ings has ...
Simon Ings, 2014
8
Three Novels - Headlong Hall -Nightmare Abbey-Crotchet Castle
We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Thomas Love Peacock, 2008
9
The Headlong God of War: A Tale of Ancient Greece and the ...
Funded by the most powerful man in the Middle East and carried out by his trusted lieutenants, this attack is intended to bring an end to western democracy This is not the attack on the Twin Towers or the Pentagon in the U.S., but the ...
Jon Edward Martin, 2007
10
Dragon Flight
The dragons are back and they're bigger and badder than ever before in this brilliant sequel to Dragonskin Slippers
Jessica Day George, 2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HEADLONG»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term headlong is used in the context of the following news items.
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We don't need another round of 'disastrous' Social Partnership | Irish …
That the public conversation has fallen headlong into the lure of running after a political decoy, underlines our poverty of policy analysis. «Irish Examiner, Jul 15»
2
Bar Code: The mother of all gin houses - Times LIVE
... whom she'd been breast-feeding, had slipped from her grasp and is falling headlong into the gutter. The illustration was published in 1751 ... «Times LIVE, Jul 15»
3
The Outsider: A long, strange trip from Las Vegas to L.A. with Pete …
He is famous for the way he played baseball (headlong) and the way he left it (headlong, too, as the only man alive on baseball's permanently ... «SI.com, Jul 15»
4
2015 British Open: Wait, Tiger Woods can't win this, can he …
It'll be the fact that he's diving headlong at the greatest putter on the planet (Jordan Spieth) and a host of golfers (Adam Scott, Louis Oosthuizen ... «CBSSports.com, Jul 15»
5
Matthew Whitaker terminates city contract, but questions remain …
The Whitaker episode raises a question of why the city bypassed the usual bidding process in a headlong rush to hand this guy $268,800. «azcentral.com, Jul 15»
6
Tarsem Singh Directing Emerald City TV Series | Blastr
Stealing a police dog in the process, she crashes headlong into a tornado while attempting to escape and wakes up in Oz, where life is ... «Blastr, Jul 15»
7
At 20, Amazon continues to defy predictions - Hamilton Spectator
When it sees such potentially big markets as original online video, or new technologies like drones, it jumps in headlong and starts hiring ... «Hamilton Spectator, Jul 15»
8
Global cooling: No, were not headed for a mini–ice age.
It's like tapping on your brakes as your car plunges headlong into a brick wall at 100 kilometers per hour. Advertisement. This new claim comes ... «Slate Magazine, Jul 15»
9
Review: Two Planks infuses The Tempest with sense of wonder …
Dressed like a princess, she is not princess-like in her playfulness and headlong rush of love for the young prince Ferdinand, given a most ... «TheChronicleHerald.ca, Jul 15»
10
U.S. lawmakers slam homeland security chief on immigration …
Obama administration policies "have turned the flight from enforcement into a headlong rush," Goodlatte said at a nearly four-hour hearing. «Grand Forks Herald, Jul 15»

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