headword
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- A word that is used as the title of a section, especially in a dictionary, encyclopedia, or thesaurus.
- (countable) A headword is the word under which a set of related dictionary or encyclopedia entries appears.
- (grammar) The headword of a phrase is the most important word in the phrase.
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