Head

/hɛd/ · noun

Meaning

(countable) The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs..

Definitions by Sense

1. (countable) The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs.
2. (countable) The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
3. The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
4. (social, countable, metonymic) A leader or expert.
5. A significant or important part.
6. Headway; progress.
7. Topic; subject.
8. (only in the singular) Denouement; crisis.

Example Sentences

Be careful when you pet that dog on the head; it may bite.

Afore we got to the shanty Colonel Applegate stuck his head out of the door. His temper had been getting raggeder all the time, and the sousing he got when he fell overboard had just about ripped what was left of it to ravellings.

What does it say at the head of the page?

Men that I knew around Wapatomac didn't wear high, shiny plug hats, nor yeller spring overcoats, nor carry canes with ivory heads as big as a catboat's anchor, as you might say.

I'd like to speak to the head of the department.

Police arrested the head of the gang in a raid last night.

He's (the) head of a project here.

“I don't know how you and the ‘head,’ as you call him, will get on, but I do know that if you call my duds a ‘livery’ again there'll be trouble. It's bad enough to go around togged out like a life saver on a drill day, but I can stand that 'cause I'm paid for it. What I won't stand is to have them togs called a livery.[…]”

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• heads
• head
• 'ead
• heead
• hed
• heading
• headed

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