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Meaning of "long-headed" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF LONG-HEADED

long-headed play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF LONG-HEADED

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Long-Headed is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES LONG-HEADED MEAN IN ENGLISH?

long-headed

Cephalic index

The cephalic index or cranial index is the ratio of the maximum width of the head of an organism multiplied by 100 divided by its maximum length. Cephalic index The index was widely used by anthropologists in the early 20th century to categorize human populations, and by Carleton S. Coon in the 1960s. Today it is mainly used to describe individuals' appearances and for estimating the age of fetuses for legal and obstetrical reasons. The index is also used to categorize animals, especially dogs and cats.

Definition of long-headed in the English dictionary

The definition of long-headed in the dictionary is astute; shrewd; sagacious.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE LONG-HEADED

long-drawn-out
long-eared
long-eared owl
long-established
long-faced
long-fin tunny
long-forgotten
long-grain rice
long-haired
long-haul
long-headedly
long-headedness
long-horned beetle
long-hours culture
long-lasting
long-legged
long-life
long-limbed
long-list
long-lived

WORDS THAT END LIKE LONG-HEADED

baldheaded
bareheaded
beaded
big-headed
boneheaded
breaded
clear-headed
cool-headed
empty-headed
headed
hot-headed
leaded
level-headed
light-headed
loaded
pig-headed
red-headed
towheaded
unleaded
white-headed
wrong-headed

Synonyms and antonyms of long-headed in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «LONG-HEADED»

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

Translation of «long-headed» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF LONG-HEADED

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

Translator English - Chinese

长为首
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

de cabeza alargada
570 millions of speakers

English

long-headed
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

लंबी अध्यक्षता
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

يرأس منذ فترة طويلة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

длинноголовый
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

a cabeça longa
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

তীক্ষ্নবুদ্ধি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

long tête
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Berkepala panjang
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

langköpfigen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

長い頭
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

긴 향했다
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Long-headed
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

sáng trí
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

நீண்ட தலை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

लांब डोक्याचा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Uzunluğundaki başlı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

long- headed
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

długo -headed
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

довгоголовий
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

lung cu cap
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

οξύνους
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

lank aan die hoof
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

lång -headed
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

lang -ledet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of long-headed

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «LONG-HEADED»

The term «long-headed» is normally little used and occupies the 142.660 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of long-headed
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «long-headed».

FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «LONG-HEADED» OVER TIME

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LONG-HEADED»

Discover the use of long-headed in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to long-headed and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Report of the ... Meeting of the British Association for the ...
The skull is here markedly- long-headed, with the parietal diameter less than the longitudinal. The frontal bones are strongly flattened ; the zygomatic arches large. Accurate and reliable evidence respecting the cranial conformation of the ...
British Association for the Advancement of Science, British Association for the Advancement of Science. Meeting, 1864
2
Valentine MʻClutchy, the Irish Agent: Or, The Chronicles of ...
Well, sir, so you see, bein' given to deep ways of thinkin' o' my own, I had many bouts at arguin' Scripthur — as every long headed man has, of coorse — an yestherday meetin' wid Brian Broghari, the mealman — him that keeps it up on the ...
William Carleton, 1848
3
Roman Britain and the English Settlements
In the Neolithic period, which is as far back as we need attempt to trace the British pedigree, the whole of western Europe was inhabited by a race of long-headed men, varying somewhat in appearance, and especially in colouring, since they ...
Robin George Collingwood, John Nowell Linton Myres, 1936
4
From Ulster to America: The Scotch-Irish Heritage of ...
1997 Montgomery Coll, I guess I'll have to do it by my lone; He lived by his lone self for two years after his wife died. long-headed, lang-headed, lang-heided adj Determined, calculating, stubborn, [cf OED long-headed 2 'discerning'; SND (at ...
Michael Montgomery, 2006
5
Peoples Of All Nations: Their Life Today And Story Of Their ...
Then came a long-headed people who introduced bronze axes — they were perhaps leaders of a round-headed peasantry — and are on the whole confined to east England. They perhaps brought with them the Gaelic language, and ...
J. A. Hammerton, 2007
6
Raciology
Main Trunk Their Characteristics Affiliated Native Races Local Their Characteristics Group A nose wool-like hair; wide Bushmen yellowish skin; steatopygia; low height; long-headed Negrito Reddish-Brown Skin; Very Low Height; Relaitively ...
Vladimir Avdeyev, 2011
7
Race, American Literature and Transnational Modernisms
Oh, shining rivers of the soul! In aHarlem cabaret Six long-headed jazzers play. A dancing girl whose eyes are bold Lifts high a dress of silken gold. Oh, singing tree! Oh, shining rivers of the soul! Were Eve's eyes In the first garden Just a bit too ...
Anita Patterson, 2008
8
The peoples of Europe
since been a region of broad—headed men, separating provinces of long- headed men to the north around the Baltic and (for a time) in Russia, and to the south around the western Mediterranean, then becoming increasingly cut off from  ...
H.J. Fleure
9
Ethnology: 1945 - 1975
... (long-headed), the later a brachycephalic (round-headed) people, who arrived in the west at a much later period. If so, and it will be seen that all the facts point in this direction, the persistence of a long-headed type will be at once explained.
Aino Ränk, 1975
10
The Myth of the Jewish Race
However, this phenomenon has not been found in long-headed populations of Mediterranean origin, nor in populations of East Asian origin. In fact, the growth in stature of Chinese born in the United States and of Japanese born in Hawaii has  ...
Raphael Patai, Jennifer Patai, 1989

6 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «LONG-HEADED»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term long-headed is used in the context of the following news items.
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The go-to man for GOP candidates
Shultz: A key is to have a strategy. Nixon was a strategist...Ronald Reagan was a strategist. He was long-headed and I'll give you an example. «Washington Examiner, Jun 15»
2
Lyon breaks record of a cricket giant
... something recognised by CB Fry who wrote referring to Trumble that, “he is the most long-headed, observant and acute judge of the game… «The Roar, Jun 15»
3
Jimeoin, Effie and other Sydney Comedy Festival stars reveal their …
Don't let his long-headed looks fool you. This humble, witty comic is the only guy I know that can sound and look like Sylvester Stallone while ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Apr 15»
4
Vegetarian Lorikeets Have Started Eating Meat, But Why?
... inside long-headed flowers. All this predisposes the birds to being best adapted for what for the sake of brevity we'll call a vegetarian diet. «Care2.com, Mar 15»
5
BRUCE FEIN: Rand Paul's defense leadership undiminshed
By proposing a huge spike in superfluous Pentagon spending, Mr. Paul undercut his long-headed limited government creed of billions for ... «Washington Times, Mar 15»
6
BRUCE FEIN: Neo-con stupidity
The rare combination of an educated public and long-headed, selfless political leaders is required to avoid tyranny. The key to justice and the ... «Washington Times, Jan 15»

REFERENCE
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