headword
noun/ˈhɛdwɜːd/UK/ˈhɛdwɝd/US
Etymology
From head + word. Compare West Frisian haadwurd (“noun, substantive, headword”), Dutch hoofdwoord (“headword”), German Hauptwort (“noun, substantive, headword”), Swedish huvudord (“headword, keyword”).
Definitions
A word (or compound term) used as the title of a list entry or section, particularly in a…
A word (or compound term) used as the title of a list entry or section, particularly in a dictionary, encyclopedia, or thesaurus.
The head of a phrase.
- In "a very discerning car shopper", "shopper" is the headword.
The neighborhood
- neighborbasic form
- neighborcanonical form
- neighborcitation form
- neighbordictionary form
- neighborlemma
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for headword. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA