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Definition of Headwords
1. headword [n] - See also: headword
Lexicographical Neighbors of Headwords
Literary usage of Headwords
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Native Writings in Massachusett by Ives Goddard, Kathleen Joan Bragdon (1988)
"headwords have been selected as far as possible in accordance with three ...
Usually only the headword is glossed, and the glosses of headwords are ..."
2. French-English and English-French Dictionary of Aviationby Robert Morris Pierce by Robert Morris Pierce (1918)
"The headwords of each list are arranged alphabetically. Phrases are alphabetized
under the appropriate headwords. The vocabularies are somewhat meagre for ..."
3. Elements of Prose by William Allport Brockington (1899)
"... or words should be juxtaposed to their headwords, but that, especially in the
case of simple adverbs, they should generally precede their headwords. ..."
4. Journal of Morphology by Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology (1908)
"Farther headwords, buried deep in the mesoderm, there are two additional pearl-like
bodies, which, on account of their appearance as well as by their being ..."
5. The Practical Study of Languages: A Guide for Teachers and Learners by Henry Sweet (1906)
"Some, however, still prefer, even in doing a glossary, to enter the headwords in
a book—or paste the headings from a printed dictionary along the ..."
6. A New English Grammar, Logical and Historical by Henry Sweet (1903)
"Assumptive adjective-words precede their headwords : young man, running water,
settled weather, many men, three men, my house, the earth. 1781. ..."
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