A word placed at the beginning of a line or paragraph (as in a dictionary entry)

• Dictionary entry in bold
• A word that is qualified by a modifier

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
headword \headword\ n. a word that is qualified by a modifier. a word placed at the beginning of a line, paragraph, or short article (as in a dictionary or encyclopedia entry); the word which forms the title of an entry in a dictionary.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 a word used as the title of a section, particularly in a dictionary, encyclopedia, or thesaurus 2 (context grammar English) any word which may be modified by an adjunct

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A typical problem might be to answer the question: How many headwords belong to more than one part of speech? ▪ Collocations are similar to dictionary definitions in as much as they can be expressed as a headword followed by ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a word that is qualified by a modifier [syn: head word ] a word placed at the beginning of a line or paragraph (as in a dictionary entry)

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
A headword , head word , lemma , or sometimes catchword is the word under which a set of related dictionary or encyclopaedia entries appear. The headword is used to locate the entry, and dictates its alphabetical position. Depending on the size and nature ...