Looking for the meaning of the word HEADWORD in English for both noun and verb forms from the Oxford Dictionary? Below, you can explore all possible meanings and definitions of HEADWORD with sentence examples. You can also use the “AUDIO PRONUNCIATION” track to check the correct pronunciation in British English.
Word: Headword
Speech Type: Noun
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
ˈhɛdwəːd
Dialects: British English
Definition:
a word that begins a separate entry in a dictionary or other reference work
Short Definition:word that begins separate entry in reference work
Examples:- the volume has 1,800 pages containing 30,000 headwords
- more than 500 entirely new headwords have been added
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