headwordn.

Brit.

/ˈhɛdwəːd/, U.S.

/ˈhɛdˌwərd/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: head n.¹, word n.

Etymology: < head n.¹ + word n.

1. A word written or printed at the top or beginning of a chapter, paragraph, etc.; a word constituting a heading, esp. of an entry in a dictionary, encyclopedia, or other reference work. Also: an entry in a dictionary.

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headword1727

entry form1856

main word1884

entry word1890

head form1894

1727 E. Calamy Contin. Acct. Ministers II. 808 The Specimen that was added was wholly upon the Word Will, which is the Head-word (as Mr Plumsted call'd it) to which are reduc'd the Tenses of Verbs, Participles, Adjectives, &c.

1762 Concordance Holy Script. sig. Aa If you want to see all that the Scripture says about Adultery, look for the head word Adultery, which you will find in the eighth page, and under it are all the texts in the Old and New Testament which speak of Adultery.

1818 Lancaster Gaz. 3 Jan. 4/3 A paragraph of original matter, under the head word ‘Palm’, had been copied by the defendants in their seventh edition from the plaintiff's edition.

1823 G. Crabb Universal Technol. Dict. at Head The Head word, the word which stands at the head of a line, book, section, &c.

1897 Author 1 Feb. 228/2 To his numerous contributions to the study of Early and Middle English, Dr. Sweet is adding a ‘Student's Dictionary of Anglo-Saxon’. The head words are given in plain modern English.

1966 Eng. Stud. 67 211 Head-words..appear in their West-Saxon variant.

1989 Dillons Bks. Aug. 10/2 Longman Concise English Dictionary... Over 50,000 headwords and 100,000 concise definitions.

2006 S. Fitzgerald in D. Gibbs & K.-L. Krause Cyberlines 2.0 ii. 43 In print dictionaries pronunciation is often represented by..a systematic method of respelling the headwords.

2. Linguistics. A word modified by another word or words; a principal or superordinate word; a word which is the head (head n.¹ 33b) of a phrase, sentence, etc.

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headword1898

head1933

1898 H. Sweet New Eng. Gram. ii. §1759 Thus pre-adjunct or pre-adjective position means that the adjunct-word precedes its head-word.

1939 Eng. Stud. 21 71 It [sc. the genitive] was pinned down..to its head-word, first either in front or in post-position, eventually only in front position.

1957 S. Potter Mod. Ling. v. 115 In the phrase good men there are two ranks: men is the head-word or primary and good is the attribute or secondary.

1964 M. Schubiger in D. Abercrombie et al. Daniel Jones 258 Restrictive relative clauses preceded by their head-words.

1989 Internat. Jrnl. Lexicogr. 2 104 In the expressions big church and high church, church is a headword.

2012 J. Feist Premodifiers in Eng. ii. 29 In ‘clean water’: clean instructs the reader to relate the concept clean to the referent of the headword water.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	headword
释义	headwordn. Brit. /ˈhɛdwəːd/, U.S. /ˈhɛdˌwərd/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: head n.¹, word n. Etymology: < head n.¹ + word n. 1. A word written or printed at the top or beginning of a chapter, paragraph, etc.; a word constituting a heading, esp. of an entry in a dictionary, encyclopedia, or other reference work. Also: an entry in a dictionary. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > linguistic unit > lexicography > [noun] > dictionary > parts of a dictionary entry > headword headword1727 entry form1856 main word1884 entry word1890 head form1894 1727 E. Calamy Contin. Acct. Ministers II. 808 The Specimen that was added was wholly upon the Word Will, which is the Head-word (as Mr Plumsted call'd it) to which are reduc'd the Tenses of Verbs, Participles, Adjectives, &c. 1762 Concordance Holy Script. sig. Aa If you want to see all that the Scripture says about Adultery, look for the head word Adultery, which you will find in the eighth page, and under it are all the texts in the Old and New Testament which speak of Adultery. 1818 Lancaster Gaz. 3 Jan. 4/3 A paragraph of original matter, under the head word ‘Palm’, had been copied by the defendants in their seventh edition from the plaintiff's edition. 1823 G. Crabb Universal Technol. Dict. at Head The Head word, the word which stands at the head of a line, book, section, &c. 1897 Author 1 Feb. 228/2 To his numerous contributions to the study of Early and Middle English, Dr. Sweet is adding a ‘Student's Dictionary of Anglo-Saxon’. The head words are given in plain modern English. 1966 Eng. Stud. 67 211 Head-words..appear in their West-Saxon variant. 1989 Dillons Bks. Aug. 10/2 Longman Concise English Dictionary... Over 50,000 headwords and 100,000 concise definitions. 2006 S. Fitzgerald in D. Gibbs & K.-L. Krause Cyberlines 2.0 ii. 43 In print dictionaries pronunciation is often represented by..a systematic method of respelling the headwords. 2. Linguistics. A word modified by another word or words; a principal or superordinate word; a word which is the head (head n.¹ 33b) of a phrase, sentence, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > syntax or word order > syntactic unit or constituent > [noun] > phrase > head of headword1898 head1933 1898 H. Sweet New Eng. Gram. ii. §1759 Thus pre-adjunct or pre-adjective position means that the adjunct-word precedes its head-word. 1939 Eng. Stud. 21 71 It [sc. the genitive] was pinned down..to its head-word, first either in front or in post-position, eventually only in front position. 1957 S. Potter Mod. Ling. v. 115 In the phrase good men there are two ranks: men is the head-word or primary and good is the attribute or secondary. 1964 M. Schubiger in D. Abercrombie et al. Daniel Jones 258 Restrictive relative clauses preceded by their head-words. 1989 Internat. Jrnl. Lexicogr. 2 104 In the expressions big church and high church, church is a headword. 2012 J. Feist Premodifiers in Eng. ii. 29 In ‘clean water’: clean instructs the reader to relate the concept clean to the referent of the headword water. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1727
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