Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun head_word

2 senses of head word

Sense 1
headword, head word -- (a content word that can be qualified by a modifier)
       => content word, open-class word -- (a word to which an independent meaning can be assigned)

Sense 2
head, head word -- ((grammar) the word in a grammatical constituent that plays the same grammatical role as the whole constituent)
       => word -- (a unit of language that native speakers can identify; "words are the blocks from which sentences are made"; "he hardly said ten words all morning")


1 of 2 senses of headword

Sense 2
headword -- (a word placed at the beginning of a line or paragraph (as in a dictionary entry))
       => word -- (a unit of language that native speakers can identify; "words are the blocks from which sentences are made"; "he hardly said ten words all morning")