Headword

/ˈhɛdwɜːd/

Synonyms for "headword" (23 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (5)

Noun(5 words)
base formbase wordcatchwordsdefining worddictionary form

Strong matches (7)

Noun(6 words)
dictionary itementry formentry termhead wordindex termkeyword
Adjective(1 words)
free morpheme

Related words (11)

Noun(10 words)
leading termlemlemmalemmaslemmatalexemelexemesnew vocabulary itemraw formsearch term
Adjective(1 words)
lexical item

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

5 relation types

More general

5 entries
content wordlexemeopen-class wordtermword

More specific

6 entries
base formentry formentry termindex termlemmasearch term

Collocations

6 entries
bold headworddictionary headwordentry headwordheadword formheadword lemmaheadword list

Inflections

1 entries

Derivations

1 entries

Sample sentences

2 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

In this dictionary the pronunciation comes right after the headword.

Source: tatoeba (58866)

In "a very discerning car shopper", "shopper" is the headword.

Source: wiktionary

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