Thesaurus: head word
a content word that can be qualified by a modifier
Related headwords
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Definitions
- n. a word/content">content word that can be qualified by a modifier
- n. (word/grammar">grammar) the word in a grammatical constituent that plays the same grammatical role as the whole constituent