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In case you didn't recognize those Volume IV headwords, here they are again:
If we can sort out all the details here—no mean task—it emerges that W9 's vocabulary entries include both what I earlier called main entries (like watershed ) and what I called subentries (like waterless in CED ). But it appears that Longman's headwords are only those that are, or introduce, main entries.
I do not know how many headwords the MW-III contains, but it is far, far fewer than the 450,000 entries claimed.
Thus, a dictionary with approximately 80,000 headwords, the size of American college dictionaries, contains more than 170,000 entries.
And what about Longman's headwords ? Their relevant definition of headword is “a word or term placed at the beginning (e.g.