Usually means: Top part of a body.
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We found 109 dictionaries that define the word head:

General (37 matching dictionaries)
  1. head: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. -head, -head, head: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. head: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. -head, head: Collins English Dictionary
  5. head: Vocabulary.com
  6. Head, -head, head: Wordnik
  7. -head, head: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Head, Head, Head, Head, Head, Head, Head, Head, Head, Head, Head, Head, Head, Head, Head, Head, Head, Head, Head, Head, Head, Head: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. Head, -head, head: Wiktionary
  10. -head, head: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. -head, head: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. head: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. -head, head: Dictionary.com
  14. head: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. head: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. HEAD (HTTP), Head (American Horror Story), Head (Blackadder), Head (Julian Cope song), Head (Prince song), Head (The Jesus Lizard album), Head (The Monkees album), Head (Unix), Head (Vessel), Head (anatomy), Head (band), Head (beer), Head (botany), Head (company), Head (disambiguation), Head (film), Head (geology), Head (grammar), Head (hydraulic), Head (hydrology), Head (linguistics), Head (movie), Head (music), Head (surname), Head (the Monkees album), Head (vessel), Head (watercraft), Head, The Head (film), The Head: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Head, -head: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. head: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. head: Rhymezone
  20. head: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. head: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. head: MyWord.info
  23. Head: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  24. head: Free Dictionary
  25. head: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. Head, head: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  27. Head: The Word Detective
  28. Head: Dictionary/thesaurus
  29. head: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. Banjo Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Coin Collecting Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Epicurus.com Cigar Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)
  5. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Linguistic Glossary (No longer online)
  7. Head: Lexicon of Linguistics
  8. Natural Magick (No longer online)
  9. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  4. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Head: Energy Dictionary
  6. Head (anatomy), head: Legal dictionary

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. head: Computer Telephony & Electronics Dictionary and Glossary
  2. head: Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures
  3. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Head (anatomy), Head (watercraft), head: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Head: Merck Manuals
  3. Head: MedFriendly Glossary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Head, Head: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  6. Head (anatomy), head: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. HEAD: Acronym Finder
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. head: Idioms

Science (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. Head: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  3. Illustrated Glossary of Geologic Terms (No longer online)
  4. head: Extragalactic Astronomy
  5. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)
  6. Biological Control (No longer online)
  7. Glossary of Entomology (No longer online)
  8. head: Natural History Terms
  9. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. head, head, head: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. head: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  4. head: The Folk File
  5. head: ESL Slang page
  6. the head: Urban Dictionary

Sports (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Racquetball Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Head: Tennis Glossary
  3. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  4. head: Golfer's Dictionary
  5. Head: Sports Definitions

Tech (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Coal Mining Terms (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Fastener Terms (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  6. Glossary of video terms (No longer online)
  7. Glossary of Landscape Irrigation Terms (No longer online)
  8. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  9. PUMP AND SEAL TERMS (No longer online)
  10. HEAD: Glossary of Nautical Terms
  11. Oil Analysis (No longer online)
  12. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)
  13. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  14. Glossary of Energy Terms (No longer online)
  15. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  16. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)
  17. Book Collectors' Glossary (No longer online)
  18. Wine Glossary (No longer online)
  19. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)
  20. Head: Latitude Mexico
  21. HEAD, Head: Power Engineering
  22. Glossary of Water Resource Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (countable) The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs.
noun:  (people) To do with heads.
noun:  Mental or emotional aptitude or skill.
noun:  (figurative, metonymically) Mind; one's own thoughts.
noun:  A headache; especially one resulting from intoxication.
noun:  A headdress; a covering for the head.
noun:  (figurative, metonymically) An individual person.
noun:  (animals) To do with heads.
noun:  (plural head) A single animal; measure word for livestock and game.
noun:  The population of game.
noun:  The antlers of a deer.
noun:  (countable) The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
noun:  The end of a table.
noun:  The end of a rectangular table furthest from the entrance; traditionally considered a seat of honor.
noun:  (billiards) The end of a pool table opposite the end where the balls have been racked.
noun:  (countable) The principal operative part of a machine or tool.
noun:  The end of a hammer, axe, golf club, or similar implement used for striking other objects.
noun:  The end of a nail, screw, bolt, or similar fastener which is opposite the point; usually blunt and relatively wide.
noun:  The sharp end of an arrow, spear, or pointer.
noun:  (lacrosse) The top part of a lacrosse stick that holds the ball.
noun:  (music) A drum head, the membrane which is hit to produce sound.
noun:  A machine element which reads or writes electromagnetic signals to or from a storage medium.
noun:  (computing) The part of a disk drive responsible for reading and writing data.
noun:  (automotive) The cylinder head, a platform above the cylinders in an internal combustion engine, containing the valves and spark plugs.
noun:  (machining) A milling head, a part of a milling machine that houses the spindle.
noun:  (uncountable, countable) The foam that forms on top of beer or other carbonated beverages.
noun:  (engineering) The end cap of a cylindrically-shaped pressure vessel.
noun:  (coopering) The end cap of a cask or other barrel.
noun:  (geology) The uppermost part of a valley.
noun:  (British, geology) Deposits near the top of a geological succession.
noun:  (medicine) The end of an abscess where pus collects.
noun:  (music) The headstock of a guitar.
noun:  (nautical) A leading component.
noun:  The top edge of a sail.
noun:  The bow of a vessel.
noun:  (British) A headland.
noun:  (social, countable, metonymically) A leader or expert.
noun:  The place of honour, or of command; the most important or foremost position; the front.
noun:  (metonymically) Leader; chief; mastermind.
noun:  (metonymically, chiefly British, Ireland) A headteacher.
noun:  (music, slang, figurative, metonymically) A person with an extensive knowledge of hip hop.
noun:  A significant or important part.
noun:  A beginning or end, a protuberance.
noun:  The source of a river; the end of a lake where a river flows into it.
noun:  A clump of seeds, leaves or flowers; a capitulum.
noun:  An ear of wheat, barley, or other small cereal.
noun:  The leafy top part of a tree.
noun:  (anatomy) The rounded part of a bone fitting into a depression in another bone to form a ball-and-socket joint.
noun:  (nautical) The toilet of a ship.
noun:  (in the plural) Tiles laid at the eaves of a house.
noun:  A component.
noun:  (jazz) The principal melody or theme of a piece.
noun:  (linguistics) A morpheme that determines the category of a compound or the word that determines the syntactic type of the phrase of which it is a member.
noun:  Headway; progress.
noun:  Topic; subject.
noun:  (only in the singular) Denouement; crisis.
noun:  (fluid dynamics) Pressure and energy.
noun:  (uncountable, countable) A buildup of fluid pressure, often quantified as pressure head.
noun:  The difference in elevation between two points in a column of fluid, and the resulting pressure of the fluid at the lower point.
noun:  More generally, energy in a mass of fluid divided by its weight.
noun:  (slang, vulgar, uncountable) Fellatio or cunnilingus; oral sex.
noun:  (slang) The glans penis.
noun:  (slang, countable) A heavy or habitual user of illicit drugs.
noun:  (obsolete) Power; armed force.
adjective:  Of, relating to, or intended for the head.
verb:  (transitive) To be in command of. (See also head up.)
verb:  (transitive) To come at the beginning or front of; to commence.
verb:  (transitive) To strike with the head; as in soccer, to head the ball
verb:  (intransitive) To move in a specified direction.
verb:  (fishing, transitive) To remove the head from (a fish).
verb:  (intransitive) To originate; to spring; to have its course, as a river.
verb:  (intransitive) To form a head.
verb:  (transitive, of hardware) To form a head (on or to); to fit or furnish (something) with a head.
verb:  (transitive) To cut off the top of; to lop off.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To behead; to decapitate.
verb:  To go in front of.
verb:  To get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop; to oppose.
verb:  (by extension) To check or restrain.
verb:  To set on the head.
adjective:  Foremost in rank or importance.
adjective:  Placed at the top or the front.
adjective:  Coming from in front.
noun:  A surname from Middle English, from residence near a hilltop or the head of a river, or a byname for someone with an odd-looking head.
noun:  (journalism) Short for headline. [(journalism) The heading or title of a magazine or newspaper article.]

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