Usually means: Main entry in a dictionary.
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We found 20 dictionaries that define the word headword:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. headword: Merriam-Webster
  2. headword: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. headword: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. headword: Collins English Dictionary
  5. headword: Vocabulary.com
  6. headword: Wordnik
  7. headword: Wiktionary
  8. headword: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. headword: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. headword: Dictionary.com
  11. Headword: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. headword: Rhymezone
  13. headword: FreeDictionary.org
  14. headword: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. headword: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. headword: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Linguistic Glossary (No longer online)
  2. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A word (or compound term) used as the title of a list entry or section, particularly in a dictionary, encyclopedia, or thesaurus.
noun:  (grammar) The head of a phrase.

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