HEAD WORD

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

(grammar) the word in a grammatical constituent that plays the same grammatical role as the whole constituent

Synonyms:

head; head word

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("head word" is a kind of...):

word (a unit of language that native speakers can identify)

Domain category:

grammar (the branch of linguistics that deals with syntax and morphology (and sometimes also deals with semantics))

Meaning:

A content word that can be qualified by a modifier

Synonyms:

head word; headword

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("head word" is a kind of...):

content word; open-class word (a word to which an independent meaning can be assigned)

Holonyms ("head word" is a part of...):

phrase (an expression consisting of one or more words forming a grammatical constituent of a sentence)