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From head + word. Compare West Frisian haadwurd (“noun, substantive, headword”), Dutch hoofdwoord (“headword”), German Hauptwort (“noun, substantive, headword”), Swedish huvudord (“headword, keyword”).
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈhɛdwɜːd/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈhɛdwɝd/
headword (plural headwords)
- A word (or compound term) used as the title of a list entry or section, particularly in a dictionary, encyclopedia, or thesaurus.
- Coordinate terms: heading, head, subheading, subhead, rubric
- Hypernym: definiendum
- Hyponym: lemma
- (grammar) Any word which may be modified by an adjunct; often, the core noun of a noun phrase.
- Synonym: head
- In "a very discerning car shopper", "shopper" is the headword.
word used as the title of a section
- Armenian: գլխաբառ (hy) (glxabaṙ)
- Catalan: entrada (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Dutch: trefwoord (nl) n
- Esperanto: kapvorto
- Finnish: hakusana (fi)
- French: mot vedette (fr) m, vedette (fr) f
- Georgian: სასათაურო სიტყვა (sasatauro siṭq̇va), ვოკაბულა (voḳabula)
- German: Stichwort (de) n, Schlagwort (de) n, Stichpunkt (de) m
- Hungarian: címszó (hu)
- Italian: voce (it) f
- Japanese: 見出し語 (みだしご, midashigo)
- Latvian: šķirklis m
- Norwegian: oppslagsord n
- Polish: hasło (pl) n
- Portuguese: entrada (pt) f
- Romanian: cuvânt-titlu (ro) n
- Russian: загла́вное сло́во n (zaglávnoje slóvo)
- Scottish Gaelic: ceannfhacal m
- Spanish: lema (es) m, entrada (es) f, palabra principal f
- Swahili: kidahizo (sw)
- Swedish: uppslagsord (sv) n, stickord (sv) n
- Welsh: prifair m
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