Download the app
educalingo
Search

Meaning of "headword" in the English dictionary

Dictionary
DICTIONARY
section

PRONUNCIATION OF HEADWORD

headword  [ˈhɛdˌwɜːd] play
facebooktwitterpinterestwhatsapp

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HEADWORD

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Headword is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES HEADWORD MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Headword

A headword, head word, lemma, or sometimes catchword is the word under which a set of related dictionary or encyclopaedia entries appear. The headword is used to locate the entry, and dictates its alphabetical position. Depending on the size and nature of the dictionary or encyclopedia, the entry may include alternative meanings of the word, its etymology and pronunciation, compound words or phrases that contain the headword, and encyclopedic information about the concepts represented by the word. For example, the headword bread may contain the following definitions: Bread ▪ A common food made from the combination of flour, water and yeast ▪ Money ▪ To coat in breadcrumbs — to know which side your bread is buttered to know how to act in your own best interests. The Academic Dictionary of Lithuanian contains around 500,000 headwords. The Oxford English Dictionary has around 273,000 headwords, while Merriam-Webster's Third New International Dictionary has about 470,000.

Definition of headword in the English dictionary

The definition of headword in the dictionary is a key word placed at the beginning of a line, paragraph, etc, as in a dictionary entry.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH HEADWORD


afterword
ˈɑːftəˌwɜːd
ayword
ˈaɪˌwɜːd
backword
ˈbækˌwɜːd
boo-word
ˈbuːˌwɜːd
byword
ˈbaɪˌwɜːd
catchword
ˈkætʃˌwɜːd
codeword
ˈkəʊdˌwɜːd
counterword
ˈkaʊntəˌwɜːd
crossword
ˈkrɒswɜːd
foreword
ˈfɔːˌwɜːd
guideword
ˈɡaɪdˌwɜːd
keyword
ˈkiːˌwɜːd
nayword
ˈneɪˌwɜːd
overword
ˈəʊvəˌwɜːd
password
ˈpɑːsˌwɜːd
stopword
ˈstɒpˌwɜːd
swearword
ˈswɛəˌwɜːd
watchword
ˈwɒtʃˌwɜːd
word
wɜːd
word-for-word
ˌwɜːdfəˈwɜːd

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HEADWORD

headspring
headsquare
headstall
headstand
headstay
headstick
headstock
headstone
headstream
headstrong
headstrongly
headstrongness
headward
headwards
headwaters
headway
headwind
headwork
headworker
heady

WORDS THAT END LIKE HEADWORD

at a word
buzz word
double-edged sword
f-word
in a word
mum´s the word
n-word
of one´s word
operative word
printed word
root word
sword
the c-word
the f-word
the last word
the n-word
the sword
the word
word for word
written word

Synonyms and antonyms of headword in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «headword» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR
online translator

TRANSLATION OF HEADWORD

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

Translator English - Chinese

词条
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

headword
570 millions of speakers

English

headword
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

headword
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

المعجم
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

заглавное
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

headword
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

headword
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

lemme
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kata laluan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Stichwort
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

見出語
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

표제어
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Headword
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tựa
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

headword
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मथळा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

madde başı sözcük
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

lemma
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

hasło o
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

заголовне
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

cuvântul definit
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

λήμμα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

trefwoordinskrywings
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

uppslagsord
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

oppslagsord
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of headword

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HEADWORD»

The term «headword» is normally little used and occupies the 118.630 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
0
100%
FREQUENCY
Little used
45
/100
The map shown above gives the frequency of use of the term «headword» in the different countries.
Principal search tendencies and common uses of headword
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «headword».

FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HEADWORD» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «headword» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «headword» 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 headword

EXAMPLES

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HEADWORD»

Discover the use of headword in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to headword and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Chamorro Reference Grammar
with a vowel an additional n is attached to the headword. The nature of this n is discussed in the paragraphs following. When a headword is modified by another noun, the modifier always follows the headword. Notice the following examples: ...
Donald M. Topping, Bernadita C. Dungca, 1973
2
Survey of English Dialects: The Dictionary and Grammar
The headword-form for an ordinary entry is normally the orthographic representation of the item used in the Basic Material. Occasionally a decision has been taken to use a spelling different from that used in SED, especially where it is felt that ...
Clive Upton, David Parry, John David Allison Widdowson, 1994
3
Bilingual Thematic Dictionaries
This arrangement can be diagrammatically represented as follows: initial points of access: headword---headword---headword---headword---headword Flat Macrostructural Hierarchies and Pyramid Macrostructural Hierarchies Dictionaries with ...
Martin Stark, 2011
4
Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage
An Entry-item is a Headword at the beginning of an Entry, or Phrase (usually numbered) within the Entry. A Superscript numeral is a small raised number at the end of a Headword to distinguish it from its homograph used in another function or ...
Richard Allsopp, Jeannette Allsopp, 2003
5
Lexicography: Lexicography, metalexicography and reference ...
Perhaps no concept is more central to lexicography. Robinson lists the following synonyms: entry, entry word, entry-head, guide word, headword, key word, lemma, main entry, word-entry. All but one of these terms is equivocal: I believe that ...
R. R. K. Hartmann, 2003
6
Making Dictionaries: Preserving Indigenous Languages of the ...
Teki 'cut in one act' and tetehi 'cut repeatedly' might be nested under a single headword, but what about no:tsa 'call to' and no:no:tsa 'give advice', where the morphological lemmatization is clear but the semantic relatedness begins to stretch?
William Frawley, Kenneth C. Hill, Pamela Munro, 2002
7
Survey English Dialects
The headword-form for an ordinary entry is normally the orthographic representation of the item used in the Basic Material. Occasionally a decision has been taken to use a spelling different from that used in SED, especially where it is felt that ...
Michael V. Barry, 2013
8
Grammar and Vocabulary: A Resource Book for Students
Commentary The headword in the first phrase is approach, which is a noun; so the phrase is a 'noun phrase', since phrases are termed after their headword. In the second, the headword is proposed, here the past participle of the verb propose ...
Howard Jackson, 2002
9
Cook Islands Maori Dictionary
The headword of a dictionary entry is the Rarotongan (or other Cook Islands dialect) word that is being defined. The headword may end with a superscript numeral to distinguish it from other headwords with the same spelling but unrelated ...
Jasper Buse, Raututi Taringa, Bruce Biggs, 1995
10
International Conference on Intelligent Computing: ...
3.2 Headword Assignment In this module, headwords are assigned to each chunk (phrase). In a semantic dependency grammar, headwords are the constituent that can represent the main meaning of the chunks. Headwords are assigned ...
De-Shuang Huang, Kang Li, George William Irwin, 2006

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HEADWORD»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term headword is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Twerk, Meh, and Inukshuk Some of the New Words Added to Oxford …
In spite of the fact that the twirk spelling is earlier, the OED has made the twerk spelling the headword form. This is because while it is a later ... «KelownaNow, Jun 15»
2
Twerking since 1820: an OED antedating
In spite of the fact that the twirk spelling is earlier, the OED has made the twerk spelling the headword form. This is because while it is a later ... «OUPblog, Jun 15»
3
Literary Discourse - Phrases, Clauses And Sentences
For instance, “the adjective phrase is often pre-modified by an adverb of degree plus an adjective as its headword” (Quagie, 2010:106). «GhanaWeb, May 15»
4
Merriam-Webster Wants to Reinvent the Dictionary for the Digital …
Some of those address Govian tics that have annoyed lexicographers for 50 years, like the Third's refusal to capitalize any headword (except, ... «Slate Magazine, Jan 15»
5
This Xmas give yourself a trusty companion to our industry
Many are detailed essays on subjects within a single headword, such as entries on the development of radio in each state and territory, ... «The Australian, Nov 14»
6
Every day and not everyday
Under the headword or entry 'everyday', LDOCE states clearly three pieces of useful info: that everyday is an adjective and that everyday is ... «GhanaWeb, Nov 14»
7
The big deal about dictionaries
... so the user can see the word in context and these sample sentences also highlight common collocations (words that go with the headword) ... «Hindustan Times, Aug 14»
8
Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary App Now with Full Support for …
No on-going Internet connection required (for headword audio only): simply download the dictionary once and use it on your device without any ... «PR Web, Jul 14»
9
Crossword roundup: from poll to polly, from Spam to spam
In 1969, when Mr Praline yelled at his petrified pet, the Pythons secured a place under the headword POLLY in the Oxford dictionary ... 1969 G. «The Guardian, Jul 14»
10
Crossword blog: compiling a cryptic crossword app
It currently has nearly 7,000 headword entries. So any errors are all mine, I'm afraid! This is, of course, a never-ending task, and I am always ... «The Guardian, Jul 14»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Headword [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/headword>. May 2024 ».
Download the educalingo app
en
English dictionary
Discover all that is hidden in the words on
index
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z