Example sentences for: headwords

How can you use “headwords” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In a typical college dictionary, which might have, say, 85,000 headwords the entry count (which is prominently displayed in the jacket blurbs) is about twice that, or 170,000.

  • In case you didn't recognize those Volume IV headwords, here they are again:

  • And what about Longman's headwords ? Their relevant definition of headword is “a word or term placed at the beginning (e.g.

  • A dictionary with, say, 150,000 entries is likely to have no more than 80,000 headwords.

  • Then there is the question, Why are both singular and plural forms shown for the headwords?


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