Meanings
head1
plural heads · alternative UK pronunciation spelling 'ead · alternative Yorkshire heead · alternative archaic hed
- countableThe part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs.
Be careful when you pet that dog on the head; it may bite.
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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.
1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC, page 175- countableuncountablepeopleMental or emotional aptitude or skill.
He has no head for heights.
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The company is looking for people with good heads for business.
It's all about having a good head on your shoulders.
And each of a succession of teachers who tried to show me that mathematical answers were derived logically and not through some form of esoteric inspiration was forced to give up with the assurance that I had no head for figures. My father 'would read my school reports with a gloom which in other respects they scarcely warranted. His mind worked, I think, this way: no head for figures = no idea of finance = no money.
1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 25Synonyms: caput, pate, noggin, loaf, nut, noodle, bonce, mind
- countablefigurativelymetonymicallyuncountablepeopleMind; one's own thoughts.
This song keeps going through my head.
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“Anthea hasn't a notion in her head but to vamp a lot of silly mugwumps. She's set her heart on that tennis bloke[…]whom the papers are making such a fuss about.”
1935, George Goodchild, chapter 1, in Death on the Centre Court - countableuncountablepeopleA headache; especially one resulting from intoxication.
"Now you have done it, Spuds," said Cripps. "You'll have an awful head on you tomorrow."
1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 1172 more examples
He found whist, and gymkhanas, and things of that kind (meant to amuse one after office) good; but he took them seriously, too, just as seriously as he took the “head” that followed after drink.
1888, Rudyard Kipling, “Thrown Away”, in Plain Tales from the Hills, Calcutta: Thacker, Spink and Co.; London: W. Thacker & Co., →OCLC, page 15"Mornin', Tom," he said in a husky voice. Then as the wife left the room: "Got a drop of Scotch about? I've a head on me this morning."
1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019 - countablefigurativelymetonymicallyuncountablepeopleAn individual person.
Admission is three dollars a head.
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[…] but here we are obliged to diſcloſe ſome Maxims, which Publicans hold to be the grand Myſteries of their Trade. […] And, laſtly, if any of their Gueſts call but for little, to make them pay a double Price for every Thing they have ; ſo that the Amount by the Head may be much the ſame.
1749, Henry Fielding, chapter VII, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume III, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book VIII, pages 196–197
- countableThe topmost, foremost, or leading part.
What does it say at the head of the page?
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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.
1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter X, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC, page 243- countableuncountableartsThe larger-diameter end of an unused rivet, properly the factory head or ambiguously the shop head, as opposed to the bucktail which is passed through the items to be fastened and then upset into an appropriate shape, generally pancake-shaped for a solid rivet or doughnut-shaped for a blind rivet, called the field head or ambiguously the shop head.
- countableuncountableautomotiveThe cylinder head, a platform above the cylinders in an internal combustion engine, containing the valves and spark plugs.
- countableuncountablegeographyThe uppermost part of a valley.
A deep bed of this red sandstone occurs at the head of the Yen Shui valley, a few miles south of Ching-pien [translating 靖邊 /靖边 (Jìngbiān)].
1912, Robert Sterling Clark, Arthur de Carle Sowerby, Through Shên-kan: The Account of the Clark Expedition in North China, 1908-9., T. Fisher Unwin, →OCLC, page 122 - UKcountableuncountablegeographyDeposits near the top of a geological succession.
- countableuncountableSynonym of tidal bore.
Synonyms: tidal bore · Antonyms: base, bottom, underside, foot, tail
- abbreviationcountableellipsisuncountablejournalismEllipsis of headline.
The content of a headline over a news story should be taken from the lead of the story. […] The head should give the same impression as the body of the story.
1968, Earl English, Clarence Hach, Scholastic Journalism, page 166
- countablemetonymicallysocialA leader or expert.
He's (the) head of a project here.
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I'd like to speak to the head of the department.
Police arrested the head of the gang in a raid last night.
“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.[…]”
1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLCSynonyms: boss, chief, leader · Antonyms: subordinate
- countablemetonymicallyuncountablesocialThe place of honor or command; the most important or foremost position; the front.
We saw the last Campaign that an Army of Fourscore Thousand of the best Troops in Europe, with the Duke of Marlborough at the Head of them, cou'd do nothing against an Enemy that were too numerous to be assaulted in their Camps, or attack'd in their Strong Holds.
1708, Joseph Addison, The present state of the war, and the necessity of an augmentation, consider'd, page 33Synonyms: boss, chief, leader · Antonyms: subordinate
- IrelandUKcountablemetonymicallyuncountablesocialA headteacher.
I was called into the head's office to discuss my behaviour.
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At 4pm, the phone went. It was The Sun: 'We hear your daughter's been expelled for cheating at her school exams...' / She'd made a remark to a friend at the end of the German exam and had been pulled up for talking. / As they left the exam room, she muttered that the teacher was a 'twat'. He heard and flipped—a pretty stupid thing to do, knowing the kids were tired and tense after exams. Instead of dropping it, the teacher complained to the Head and Deb was carpeted.
1992 June 24, Edwina Currie, DiarySynonyms: boss, chief, leader, headmaster, headmistress, principal · Antonyms: subordinate
- countablefigurativelymetonymicallyslanguncountablesocialentertainmentA person with an extensive knowledge of hip hop.
Only true heads know this.
Synonyms: boss, chief, leader · Antonyms: subordinate
- countablemetonymicallyslanguncountablesocial; African-American Vernacular; African-American VernacularAn old head.
Synonyms: boss, chief, leader · Antonyms: subordinate
- A significant or important part.
- countableuncountableA clump of seeds, leaves or flowers; a capitulum.
Give me a head of lettuce.
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Plant breeding is always a numbers game.[…]The wild species we use are rich in genetic variation, […]. In addition, we are looking for rare alleles, so the more plants we try, the better. These rarities may be new mutations, or they can be existing ones that are neutral—or are even selected against—in a wild population. A good example is mutations that disrupt seed dispersal, leaving the seeds on the heads long after they are ripe.
2013 May-June, David Van Tassel, Lee DeHaan, “Wild Plants to the Rescue”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, archived from the original on 14 Aug 2013 - countableuncountableThe leafy top part of a tree.
- countableuncountableanatomyThe rounded part of a bone fitting into a depression in another bone to form a ball-and-socket joint.
- countableuncountablenauticalThe toilet of a ship.
I've got to go to the head.
Synonyms: big white telephone, bog, can, commode, crapper, crapper trapper, donniker, dunny
- countablein pluraluncountableTiles laid at the eaves of a house.
Heads. (Roofing.) Tiles which are laid at the eaves of a house
1875, Edward H. Knight, Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary, vol. II, page 1086 - countableuncountablehuman sciencesA morpheme that determines the category of a compound or the word that determines the syntactic type of the phrase of which it is a member.
Holonym: phrase
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Linguists will see that we reject some assumptions quite widely held in twentieth-century generative linguistics. The differences are sharp and explicit enough that they should provide grounds for discussion without causing confusion. For example, we do not believe subordinators (‘complementizers’) or coordinators (‘conjunctions’) are heads, and we treat every day as a noun phrase headed by day rather than a determinative phrase headed by every. […] That does not mean we are legislating a theoretical view: it is always possible to stop and ask whether certain facts about syntax are better explained under one theoretical conception rather than another.
2022, Rodney Huddleston, Geoffrey K. Pullum, Brett Reynolds, A Student's Introduction to English Grammar, 2nd edition, Cambridge University Press, page xvi - countableuncountablechemistryThe first fraction of a distillation run, having a low boiling point.
Synonyms: foreshot
- countableuncountableTopic; subject.
We will consider performance issues under the head of future improvements.
- countablesingularuncountableDenouement; crisis.
These issues are going to come to a head today.
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Northumberland, thou Ladder wherewithall / The mounting Bullingbrooke aſcends my Throne, / The time ſhall not be many houres of age, / More then it is, ere foule ſinne, gathering head, / Shall breake into corruption […]
1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], page 41The indiſpoſition which has long hung upon me, is at laſt grown to ſuch an head, that it muſt quickly make an end of me, or of itſelf.
1712 October 18, anonymous letter in The Spectator, edited by Joseph Addison, no. 513, collected in The Works of the Late Right Honorable Joseph Addison, Esq, Birmingham: John Baskerville, published 1761, volume IV, page 10 - Pressure and energy.
- countableuncountablefluid dynamicsA buildup of fluid pressure, often quantified as pressure head.
Let the engine build up a good head of steam.
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How much head do you have at the Glens Falls feeder dam?
- slanguncountablevulgarFellatio or cunnilingus; oral sex.
She gave great head.
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Danny got head last night.
- countableslanguncountableThe glans penis.
- countableslangA heavy or habitual user of illicit drugs.
The hutch now looks like a “Turkish bath,” and the heads have their arms around one another, passing the pipe and snapping their fingers as they sing Smokey Robinson's “Tracks of My Tears” into the night.
2004, Martin Torgoff, “Next Stop is Vietnam”, in Can’t Find My Way Home: America in the Great Stoned Age, 1945–2000, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 1772 more examples
Then I saw the more advanced narcotic addicts, who shot unbelievable doses of powerful heroin in the main line – the vein of their arms; the hysien users; chloroform sniffers, who belonged to the riff-raff element of the dope chippeys, who mingled freely with others of their kind; canned heat stiffs, paragoric hounds, laudanum fiends, and last but not least, the veronal heads.
1936, Lee Duncan, Over The Wall, DuttonThe term, "head," is, of course, not new with hippies. It has a long history among drug users generally, for whom it signified a regular, experienced user of any illegal drug—e.g., pot "head," meth "head," smack (heroin) "head."
1968, Fred Davis with Laura Munoz, “Heads and freaks: patterns and meanings of drug use among hippies”, in Journal of Health and Social Behavior, volume 9, number 2, pages 156–64 - countableobsoleteuncountablePower; armed force.
My lord, my lord, the French have gathered head:
1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv], page 100
alternative UK pronunciation spelling 'ead · alternative Yorkshire heead · alternative archaic hed
present singular third person heads · participle present heading · participle past headed · past headed · alternative UK pronunciation spelling 'ead · alternative Yorkshire heead · alternative archaic hed
- transitiveTo be in command of. (See also head up.)
Who heads the board of trustees?
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to head an army, an expedition, or a riot
- transitiveTo come at the beginning or front of; to commence.
A group of clowns headed the procession.
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The most important items headed the list.
When it arrived, the train was headed by a "K" class 4-6-0 wood-burning locomotive, and a water-tank wagon next to the tender was immediately besieged by women and girls, clad in their picturesque national costume, all with empty kerosene tins for water, a scene which was re-enacted at each stop down the line.
1943 November and December, G. T. Porter, “The Lines Behind the Lines in Burma”, in Railway Magazine, page 325The citations are set in smaller font, start on a new indented line and are headed with a date.
2018, James Lambert, “Setting the Record Straight: An In-depth Examination of Hobson-Jobson”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 31, number 4, →DOI, page 491 - transitiveTo strike with the head
to head the ball
- intransitiveTo move in a specified direction.
Whither heads the train?
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We are going to head up North for our holiday.
We will head off tomorrow.
Next holiday we will head out West, or head to Chicago.
Right now I need to head into town to do some shopping.
I'm fed up working for a boss. I'm going to head out on my own and set up my own business.
- intransitiveTo originate; to spring; to have its course, as a river.
The Templeton heads in the Cloncurry ranges[.]
1934, Henry G. Lamond, An Aviary on the Plains, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 1561 more example
a broad purling river, that heads in the great blue ridge of mountains,
1775, James Adair, The History of the American Indians, page 223 - intransitiveTo form a head.
This kind of cabbage heads early.
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To be honest, this hasn't been my Garden of Eden year. […] The lettuce turned bitter and bolted. The Green Comet broccoli was good, but my coveted Romanescos never headed up.
1995, Anne Raver, “Gandhi Gardening”, in Deep in the Green: An Exploration of Country Pleasures, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN - transitiveusuallyTo form a head (on or to); to fit or furnish (something) with a head.
to head a nail
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“Well, you see, jist as Larry Toole was come down from headin’ the last rick, an’ we war takin’ away the laddher, out comes the misthress herself - long life to her - by the light o’ the moon; an’, ‘Boys,’ sez she, ‘yez hav’ finish‘d the harvist bravely, an’ I invite yez all to dinner here to-morrow; an’ if yez come airly, yez ’ill git mass in the big hall, widout the throuble o’ goin’ up all the ways to the chapel for it.’”
1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 514 - transitiveTo cut off the top of; to lop off.
to head trees
- obsoletetransitiveTo behead; to decapitate.
If you head, and hang all that offend that way but for ten yeare together; you'll be glad to giue out a Commission for more heads
c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]1 more example
I tell thee, man of God, the uncharitableness of the sect to which thou pertainest has thronged the land of punishment as much as those who headed, and hanged, and stabbed, and shot, and tortured.
1822, Allan Cunningham, “Ezra Peden”, in Traditional Tales of the English and Scottish Peasantry, volume 1, page 37 - To go in front of.
to head a person
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to head a drove of cattle
- To get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop; to oppose.
The wind headed the ship and made progress difficult.
- To set on the head.
to head a cask
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- not comparableForemost in rank or importance.
the head cook
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At the far end of the houses the head gardener stood waiting for his mistress, and he gave her strips of bass to tie up her nosegay. This she did slowly and laboriously, with knuckly old fingers that shook.
1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXXIX, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, page 307Synonyms: chief
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Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs.
nounThe end of a rectangular table furthest from the entrance; traditionally considered a seat of honor.
nounThe end of a pool table opposite the end where the balls have been racked.
nounThe end of a hammer, axe, golf club, or similar implement used for striking other objects.
nounThe end of a nail, screw, bolt, or similar fastener which is opposite the point; usually blunt and relatively wide.
nounThe larger-diameter end of an unused rivet, properly the factory head or ambiguously the shop head, as opposed to the bucktail which is passed through the items to be fastened and then upset into an appropriate shape, generally pancake-shaped for a solid rivet or doughnut-shaped for a blind rivet, called the field head or ambiguously the shop head.
nounEither, or in plural both, ends of a used rivet, the factory head and the field head.
nounA machine element which reads or writes electromagnetic signals to or from a storage medium.
nounThe part of a disk drive responsible for reading and writing data.
nounThe cylinder head, a platform above the cylinders in an internal combustion engine, containing the valves and spark plugs.
nounA milling head, a part of a milling machine that houses the spindle.
nounThe foam that forms on top of beer or other carbonated beverages.
nounThe place of honor or command; the most important or foremost position; the front.
nounThe toilet of a ship.
nounThe first fraction of a distillation run, having a low boiling point.
verbTo remove the head from (a fish).
adjectiveForemost in rank or importance.
More synonyms by meaning
nounthe upper part of the human body or the front part of the body in animals; contains the face and brains
nounthat which is responsible for one's thoughts, feelings, and conscious brain functions; the seat of the faculty of reason
nounthe source of water from which a stream arises
noun(grammar) the word in a grammatical constituent that plays the same grammatical role as the whole constituent
nounthe educator who has executive authority for a school
nouna natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea)
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
head · noun, adjective, verb
- Proto-Indo-European*kap-?
- Proto-Indo-European*kap-
- Proto-Indo-European*káput
- Proto-Germanic*haubudą
- Old Englishhēafod
- Middle Englishheed
- Englishhead
From Middle English efd, had, hafd, heafd, hed, heed, hefet, heid, het, hevd, heved, hevid, hiede, hæfd, hæfedd, from Old English hēafod (“head; top; leader; origin”), from Proto-West Germanic *haubud, from Proto-Germanic *haubudą (“head”), from Proto-Indo-European *káput (“head”), from *kap- (“head; bowl, cup”). The modern word comes from Old English oblique stem hēafd-; the expected Modern English outcome for hēafod would be *heaved (similar to the Middle English word). Doublet of cape, capo, caput, chef, chief, and Howth. Cognates Cognate with Scots heid (“head”), Yola haade, hade, heade (“head”), North Frisian Haur, hood (“head”), Saterland Frisian Haud, Hööft (“head”), West Frisian haad (“head”), Alemannic German Haupt (“head”), Dutch hoofd (“head”), German Haupt, Häupt (“head”), Vilamovian hiöet, hiöt, huöt, huø̄t (“head”), Yiddish הויפּט (hoypt, “head”), Danish hode, hoved (“head”), Elfdalian ovuð (“head”), Faroese høvd, høvur (“head”), Icelandic höfuð (“head”), Jamtish huvu (“head”), Norwegian Bokmål hode, hue (“head”), Norwegian Nynorsk haud, hauv, hove, hovu, hovud, hue, huggu, hugu, hugud, huvu, huvud (“head”), Scanian huweð (“head”), Swedish hufvud, hufwud, huve, huvud, hövve (“head”), Crimean Gothic hoef (“head”), Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌿𐌱𐌹𐌳 (haubid), 𐌷𐌰𐌿𐌱𐌹𐌸 (haubiþ, “head”); also Irish and Scottish Gaelic cuach (“bowl; dome (of head)”), Welsh cawg (“basin, bowl, vessel”), Latin capud, capus, caput (“head”), Greek κεφάλι (kefáli), κεφαλή (kefalí, “head”), Central Kurdish کاپۆڵ (kapoll, “skull”), Sanskrit कपाल (kapāla, “skull; bowl”).
More words from Middle English, Old English, Proto-West Germanic
Full word history & related roots →head · adjective
- Proto-West Germanic*haubida-
- Old Englishhēafod-“main”
- Middle Englishheed
- Englishhead
From Middle English heed, from Old English hēafod- (“main”), from Proto-West Germanic *haubida-, derived from the noun *haubid (“head”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian hööft-, West Frisian haad-, Dutch hoofd-, German Low German höövd-, German haupt-.
More words from Middle English, Old English, Proto-West Germanic
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Afrikaans kop
- koppart of the body
Ancient Greek προστάτης, κεφαλή
- προστάτης (prostátēs)leader, chief, mastermind
- κεφαλή (kephalḗ)part of the body
- κάρα (kára)part of the body
- ἀρχι- (arkhi-)foremost in rank or importance
Arabic رَئِيس, رَئِيسَة
- رَئِيس (raʔīs)individual person
- رَئِيسَة (raʔīsa)individual person
- رَئِيس (raʔīs)headmaster, headmistress
- رَئِيس (raʔīs)leader, chief, mastermind
- رَأْس (raʔs)part of the body
- راس (rās)part of the body
- دماغ (demāḡ)part of the body
- راس (rās)part of the body
- راس (rās)part of the body
- راس (rās)part of the body
- راس (rās)part of the body
- رَأْس (raʔs)topmost or leading part
- اِتَّجَهَ (ittajaha)to move in a specified direction
Basque buru, buru
- burumental aptitude or skill
- buruend of hammer, axe, golf club etc.
- buruzagileader, chief, mastermind
- buruleader, chief, mastermind
- nagusileader, chief, mastermind
- burupart of the body
- kaskopart of the body
- gaztapart of the body
- zuzenduto be in command of
- zuzenduto move in a specified direction
Bengali মাথা
- মাথা (matha)part of the body
Bulgarian глава́, дире́ктор
- глава́ (glavá)individual person
- дире́ктор (diréktor)headmaster, headmistress
- дире́кторка (diréktorka)headmaster, headmistress
- шеф (šef)leader, chief, mastermind
- ръководи́тел (răkovodítel)leader, chief, mastermind
- глава́ (glavá)leader, chief, mastermind
- коро́на (koróna)leafy top part of a tree
- глава́ (glavá)part of the body
- го́рница (górnica)topmost or leading part
- глава́ (glavá)clump of seeds, leaves or flowers
- but see на глава (na glava)of, relating to, or intended for the head
- заглава (zaglava)of, relating to, or intended for the head
- ръководя (răkovodja)to be in command of
- оглавявам (oglavjavam)to be in command of
- оглавя (oglavja)to be in command of
- оглавявам (oglavjavam)to come at the beginning of; to commence
- оглавя (oglavja)to come at the beginning of; to commence
- удрям с глава (udrjam s glava)to strike with the head
- ударя с глава (udarja s glava)to strike with the head
- отправям се (otpravjam se)to move in a specified direction
- отправя се (otpravja se)to move in a specified direction
- обезглавявам (obezglavjavam)fishing: to remove the head from a fish
- обезглавя (obezglavja)fishing: to remove the head from a fish
- извирам (izviram)to originate, as a river
- челен (čelen)foremost in rank or importance
- преден (preden)foremost in rank or importance
- преден (preden)placed at the top or the front
- горен (goren)placed at the top or the front
- насрещен (nasrešten)coming from in front
Catalan seny, cap
- senymental aptitude or skill
- capmental aptitude or skill
- capmind; one's own thoughts
- capindividual person
- capmeasure word for livestock and game
- cappopulation of game
- capend of hammer, axe, golf club etc.
- puntasharp end of an arrow, spear, or pointer
- capçalcomputing: part of a disk drive responsible for reading and writing data
- directorheadmaster, headmistress
- directoraheadmaster, headmistress
- capleader, chief, mastermind
- comandarto be in command of
- dirigirto be in command of
- encapçalarto be in command of
- liderarto be in command of
- cabotejarto strike with the head
- anarto move in a specified direction
- capforemost in rank or importance
Chinese ту, 頭 /头
- ту (tu)part of the body
- 頭 /头 (thâu)part of the body
Chinese Cantonese 頭 /头
- 頭 /头 (tau⁴)part of the body
Chinese Mandarin 頭 /头, 磁頭 /磁头
- 頭 /头 (tóu)measure word for livestock and game
- 磁頭 /磁头 (cítóu)element which reads or writes electromagnetic signals to or from a storage medium
- 磁頭 /磁头 (cítóu)computing: part of a disk drive responsible for reading and writing data
- 泡泡 (pàopao)foam on carbonated beverages
- 泡沫 (pàomò)foam on carbonated beverages
- 校長 /校长 (xiàozhǎng)headmaster, headmistress
- 導演 /导演 (dǎoyǎn)headmaster, headmistress
- 領袖 /领袖 (lǐngxiù)leader, chief, mastermind
- 頭 /头 (tóu)part of the body
- 頭腦 /头脑 (tóunǎo)part of the body
- 往 (wǎng)to move in a specified direction
- 結球 /结球 (jiēqiú)to form a head
Czech hlava, ředitel
- hlavaindividual person
- ředitelheadmaster, headmistress
- ředitelkaheadmaster, headmistress
- hlavaleader, chief, mastermind
- hlavapart of the body
- hlavablunt end of a nail, screw etc.
Danish hoved
- hovedpart of the body
Dari رَئِیس, سَر
- رَئِیسindividual person
- سَر (sar)part of the body
Dutch kop, schuim
- kopend of hammer, axe, golf club etc.
- schuimfoam on carbonated beverages
- hoofdmeesterheadmaster, headmistress
- hoofdleader, chief, mastermind
- baasleader, chief, mastermind
- bazinleader, chief, mastermind
- leiderleader, chief, mastermind
- leidsterleader, chief, mastermind
- chefleader, chief, mastermind
- cheffinleader, chief, mastermind
- hoofd (geven)slang: oral sex
- hoofdpart of the body
- hoofdof, relating to, or intended for the head
- leidento be in command of
- aanvoerento be in command of
- zich begeven (naar/richting)to move in a specified direction
- op weg zijn (naar/richting)to move in a specified direction
- onderweg zijn (naar)to move in a specified direction
Esperanto kapo, kapa
- kapopart of the body
- kapaof, relating to, or intended for the head
- komandito be in command of
- kondukito be in command of
- gvidito be in command of
- ĉefito be in command of
- kapfrapito strike with the head
- celito move in a specified direction
- celirito move in a specified direction
- direktiĝito move in a specified direction
- senkapigifishing: to remove the head from a fish
- fontito originate, as a river
- kapumito form a head
- kapito form a head
- ĉefaforemost in rank or importance
- antaŭaplaced at the top or the front
Estonian pea, suunduma
- peapart of the body
- suundumato move in a specified direction
Finnish pää, nenä
- päämental aptitude or skill
- nenämental aptitude or skill
- vainumental aptitude or skill
- päämind; one's own thoughts
- mielimind; one's own thoughts
- pääindividual person
- päämeasure word for livestock and game
- kantapopulation of game
- pääend of a rectangular table furthest from the entrance
- pääend of hammer, axe, golf club etc.
- teräend of hammer, axe, golf club etc.
- kärkisharp end of an arrow, spear, or pointer
- pää-of, relating to, or intended for the head
- johtaato be in command of
- komentaato be in command of
- pukatato strike with the head
- suunnatato move in a specified direction
- suunnistaato move in a specified direction
- lähteä johonkinto move in a specified direction
- kulkea kohtito move in a specified direction
- matkata kohtito move in a specified direction
- poistaa pääfishing: to remove the head from a fish
- saada alkunsato originate, as a river
- muodostaa kaalinpääto form a head
- tehdä pääto fit or furnish with a head
- pää-foremost in rank or importance
- etu-placed at the top or the front
- vasta-coming from in front
French dispositions, aptitudes
- dispositionsmental aptitude or skill
- aptitudesmental aptitude or skill
- têteend of hammer, axe, golf club etc.
- moussefoam on carbonated beverages
- chapeau de moussefoam on carbonated beverages
- point de drissenautical: top edge of a sail
- directeurheadmaster, headmistress
- directriceheadmaster, headmistress
- chefleader, chief, mastermind
- tinettestoilet of a ship
- cabinet de toilettestoilet of a ship
- noyaulinguistics: morpheme that determines the category of a compound
- commanderto be in command of
- dirigerto be in command of
- chapeauterto be in command of
- être en tête deto come at the beginning of; to commence
- être à la tête deto come at the beginning of; to commence
- faire une têteto strike with the head
- se dirigerto move in a specified direction
- courir (for: vers)to move in a specified direction
- allerto move in a specified direction
German Kopf, Magnetkopf
- Kopfend of hammer, axe, golf club etc.
- Magnetkopfcomputing: part of a disk drive responsible for reading and writing data
- Blumefoam on carbonated beverages
- Kronefoam on carbonated beverages
- Schaumkronefoam on carbonated beverages
- Topnautical: top edge of a sail
- Leiterheadmaster, headmistress
- Leiterinheadmaster, headmistress
- Rektorheadmaster, headmistress
- Rektorinheadmaster, headmistress
- Direktorheadmaster, headmistress
- Direktorinheadmaster, headmistress
- Kopf-of, relating to, or intended for the head
- Haupt-of, relating to, or intended for the head
- führento be in command of
- leitento be in command of
- anführento be in command of
- die Leitung innehabento be in command of
- die Führung innehabento be in command of
- an der Spitze stehento be in command of
- anführento come at the beginning of; to commence
- vorangehento come at the beginning of; to commence
- sich an der Spitze befindento come at the beginning of; to commence
- die Spitze bildento come at the beginning of; to commence
- an der Spitze stehento come at the beginning of; to commence
- sich ganz vorne befindento come at the beginning of; to commence
- Haupt-foremost in rank or importance
Greek κεφάλι, μυαλό
- κεφάλι (kefáli)mental aptitude or skill
- μυαλό (myaló)mental aptitude or skill
- διευθυντής (diefthyntís)headmaster, headmistress
- διευθύντρια (diefthýntria)headmaster, headmistress
- κεφαλή (kefalí)leader, chief, mastermind
- κεφάλι (kefáli)leader, chief, mastermind
- αρχηγός (archigós)leader, chief, mastermind
- κεφάλι (kefáli)part of the body
- κεφαλή (kefalí)topmost or leading part
- κεφάλι (kefáli)topmost or leading part
- κεφαλικός (kefalikós)of, relating to, or intended for the head
- κατευθύνομαι (katefthýnomai)to move in a specified direction
Hawaiian poʻo
- poʻopart of the body
Hebrew נוֹף, רֹאשׁ
- נוֹף (nof)leafy top part of a tree
- רֹאשׁ (rosh)part of the body
- שׁוֹשַׁנָּה (shoshaná)blunt end of a nail, screw etc.
- עמד בראש (amad b’rosh)to be in command of
- עשה את דרכוto move in a specified direction
- ראש (rosh)foremost in rank or importance
- ראשיforemost in rank or importance
- ראש (rosh)placed at the top or the front
Hindi माथा, प्रधानाचार्य
- माथा (māthā)end of hammer, axe, golf club etc.
- प्रधानाचार्य (pradhānācārya)headmaster, headmistress
- मुखिया (mukhiyā)leader, chief, mastermind
- प्रमुख (pramukh)leader, chief, mastermind
- प्रधान (pradhān)leader, chief, mastermind
- सिर (sir)part of the body
- सर (sar)part of the body
- खोपड़ी (khopṛī)part of the body
- कपाल (kapāl)part of the body
- शीर्ष (śīrṣ)topmost or leading part
- माथा (māthā)blunt end of a nail, screw etc.
- सिर (sir)of, relating to, or intended for the head
- मस्तक (mastak)of, relating to, or intended for the head
- प्रमुख (pramukh)to be in command of
- मुख्य (mukhya)to be in command of
- मुखिया (mukhiyā)to be in command of
- प्रधान (pradhān)to be in command of
- प्रधान (pradhān)foremost in rank or importance
- प्रमुख (pramukh)foremost in rank or importance
Hungarian sörhab, fej
- sörhabfoam on carbonated beverages
- fejpart of the body
- irányítto be in command of
- élen/élén állto come at the beginning of; to commence
- fejelto strike with the head
- haladto move in a specified direction
- megyto move in a specified direction
- eredto originate, as a river
- fakadto originate, as a river
Icelandic froða, yfirmaður
- froðafoam on carbonated beverages
- yfirmaðurleader, chief, mastermind
- höfuðleader, chief, mastermind
- höfuðpart of the body
- hauspart of the body
- höfuðblunt end of a nail, screw etc.
- leiðato be in command of
- skallato strike with the head
- stefnato move in a specified direction
- farato move in a specified direction
- hausafishing: to remove the head from a fish
- afhausafishing: to remove the head from a fish
Indonesian ekor, kepala
- ekormeasure word for livestock and game
- kepalaleader, chief, mastermind
- pemimpinleader, chief, mastermind
- kepalapart of the body
- hulupart of the body
- memimpinto be in command of
- menujuto move in a specified direction
Iranian Persian رَئیس, رَهْبَر
- رَئیس (ra'is)individual person
- رَهْبَر (rahbar)leader, chief, mastermind
- سالار (sâlâr)leader, chief, mastermind
- سَر (sar)leader, chief, mastermind
- رَئیسleader, chief, mastermind
- سَر (sar)part of the body
- کَلِّه (kalle)part of the body
- سَر (sar)topmost or leading part
- فَراز (farâz)topmost or leading part
- نوک (nuk)topmost or leading part
Irish cnoga, ceann
- cnogaelement which reads or writes electromagnetic signals to or from a storage medium
- ceannpart of the body
- ceannclump of seeds, leaves or flowers
- torclump of seeds, leaves or flowers
Italian testa, capo
- testamental aptitude or skill
- capoleader, chief, mastermind
- testapart of the body
- capopart of the body
- andareto move in a specified direction
Japanese 頭, 頭脳
- 頭 (atama)mental aptitude or skill
- 頭脳 (zunō)mental aptitude or skill
- 頭 (kashira)measure word for livestock and game
- 頭 (atama)end of hammer, axe, golf club etc.
- ヘッド (heddo)computing: part of a disk drive responsible for reading and writing data
- 泡 (awa)foam on carbonated beverages
- 校長 (kōchō)headmaster, headmistress
- 監督 (kantoku)headmaster, headmistress
- 指導者 (shidōsha)leader, chief, mastermind
- 頭 (kashira)leader, chief, mastermind
- 主要部 (shuyōbu)linguistics: morpheme that determines the category of a compound
- 頭 (atama)part of the body
- 頭の (atama no)of, relating to, or intended for the head
- 指導する (shidō-suru)to be in command of
- ヘディングする (hedingu suru)to strike with the head
- 頭突きする (zutsuki suru)to strike with the head
- 向かう (mukau)to move in a specified direction
- チーフ (chīfu)foremost in rank or importance
- 先頭の (sentō no)placed at the top or the front
- 向かい (mukai-)coming from in front
Korean 머리, 두뇌
- 머리 (meori)mental aptitude or skill
- 두뇌 (dunoe)mental aptitude or skill
- 마리 (mari)measure word for livestock and game
- 머리 (meori)part of the body
- 통 (tong)clump of seeds, leaves or flowers
Latin caput, praepositus
- caputleader, chief, mastermind
- praepositusleader, chief, mastermind
- caputpart of the body
- cacumenof, relating to, or intended for the head
- caputof, relating to, or intended for the head
Latvian galva
- galvapart of the body
Lithuanian galva, galva
- galvaend of hammer, axe, golf club etc.
- galvaleader, chief, mastermind
- vadovasleader, chief, mastermind
- vadovėleader, chief, mastermind
- galvàpart of the body
- galvutėblunt end of a nail, screw etc.
Malay ketua, kepala
- ketualeader, chief, mastermind
- kepalapart of the body
- hulupart of the body
- menujuto move in a specified direction
Māori kiko, tumuaki
- kikoend of hammer, axe, golf club etc.
- tumuakiheadmaster, headmistress
- tumuakileader, chief, mastermind
- karamataleafy top part of a tree
- upokopart of the body
- urupart of the body
- māhungapart of the body
- māhunapart of the body
- mātengapart of the body
- panepart of the body
- hukitautopmost or leading part
- perublunt end of a nail, screw etc.
- ahuto move in a specified direction
- nakato move in a specified direction
- neketo move in a specified direction
Norwegian hode-, hoved-
- hode-of, relating to, or intended for the head
- hoved-foremost in rank or importance
- leder-placed at the top or the front
- førsteplaced at the top or the front
Norwegian Bokmål hode, evne
- hodemental aptitude or skill
- evnemental aptitude or skill
- hodeend of hammer, axe, golf club etc.
- skumfoam on carbonated beverages
- rektorheadmaster, headmistress
- lederleader, chief, mastermind
- sjefleader, chief, mastermind
- kjernelinguistics: morpheme that determines the category of a compound
- hodepart of the body
- topptopmost or leading part
- hodeblunt end of a nail, screw etc.
- ledeto be in command of
- anføreto be in command of
- ledeto come at the beginning of; to commence
- anføreto come at the beginning of; to commence
- headeto strike with the head
- nikketo strike with the head
Persian اداره کردن
- اداره کردن (edâre kardan)to be in command of
Polish głowa, głowa
- głowamental aptitude or skill
- głowamind; one's own thoughts
- pogłowiemeasure word for livestock and game
- główkaend of hammer, axe, golf club etc.
- bijakend of hammer, axe, golf club etc.
- grotsharp end of an arrow, spear, or pointer
- głowicaelement which reads or writes electromagnetic signals to or from a storage medium
- głowicacomputing: part of a disk drive responsible for reading and writing data
- dennicaend cap of a cylindrically-shaped pressure vessel
- dyrektorheadmaster, headmistress
- dyrektorkaheadmaster, headmistress
- kierownikleader, chief, mastermind
- głowowyof, relating to, or intended for the head
- kierowaćto be in command of
- kierować sięto move in a specified direction
- brać azymutto move in a specified direction
- wziąć azymutto move in a specified direction
- czołowycoming from in front
Portuguese cabeça, cabeça
- cabeçamental aptitude or skill
- cabeçameasure word for livestock and game
- cabeçaend of hammer, axe, golf club etc.
- colarinhofoam on carbonated beverages
- directorheadmaster, headmistress
- directoraheadmaster, headmistress
- diretorheadmaster, headmistress
- diretoraheadmaster, headmistress
- chefeleader, chief, mastermind
- cabeçaleader, chief, mastermind
- líderleader, chief, mastermind
- núcleolinguistics: morpheme that determines the category of a compound
- comandarto be in command of
- dirigirto be in command of
- liderarto be in command of
- cabecearto strike with the head
- dirigir-seto move in a specified direction
- encaminhar-seto move in a specified direction
- rumarto move in a specified direction
- irto move in a specified direction
- encabeçarto go in front of
- morforemost in rank or importance
- à cabeçacoming from in front
Romanian șef, cap
- șefleader, chief, mastermind
- capleader, chief, mastermind
- liderleader, chief, mastermind
- căpetenieleader, chief, mastermind
- muieslang: oral sex
- mumuslang: oral sex
- cappart of the body
- capblunt end of a nail, screw etc.
- comandato be in command of
Russian голова́, мозг
- голова́ (golová)mental aptitude or skill
- мозг (mozg)mental aptitude or skill
- глава́ (glavá)individual person
- голова́ (golová)measure word for livestock and game
- поголо́вье (pogolóvʹje)measure word for livestock and game
- голо́вка (golóvka)end of hammer, axe, golf club etc.
- наконе́чник (nakonéčnik)sharp end of an arrow, spear, or pointer
- остриё (ostrijó)sharp end of an arrow, spear, or pointer
- голо́вка (golóvka)element which reads or writes electromagnetic signals to or from a storage medium
- голо́вка (golóvka)computing: part of a disk drive responsible for reading and writing data
- дире́ктор (diréktor)headmaster, headmistress
- глава́ (glavá)leader, chief, mastermind
- головно́й (golovnój)of, relating to, or intended for the head
- возглавля́ть (vozglavljátʹ)to be in command of
- возгла́вить (vozglávitʹ)to be in command of
- руководи́ть (rukovodítʹ)to be in command of
- главе́нствовать (glavénstvovatʹ)to be in command of
- направля́ться (napravljátʹsja)to move in a specified direction
- напра́виться (naprávitʹsja)to move in a specified direction
- гла́вный (glávnyj)foremost in rank or importance
- пере́дний (perédnij)placed at the top or the front
- ве́рхний (vérxnij)placed at the top or the front
- встре́чный (vstréčnyj)coming from in front
Scottish Gaelic ceann
- ceannpart of the body
Slovak hlava, bunky
- hlavamental aptitude or skill
- bunkymental aptitude or skill
- hlavamind; one's own thoughts
- hlavaindividual person
- hlavičkaelement which reads or writes electromagnetic signals to or from a storage medium
- hlavičkacomputing: part of a disk drive responsible for reading and writing data
- hlavičkamedicine: the end of an abscess where pus collects
- riaditeľheadmaster, headmistress
- riaditeľkaheadmaster, headmistress
- hlavaleader, chief, mastermind
- korunaleafy top part of a tree
- orálslang: oral sex
- hlavovýof, relating to, or intended for the head
- viesťto be in command of
- hlavičkovaťto strike with the head
- ísťto move in a specified direction
- hlavnýforemost in rank or importance
Spanish res, cabeza
- resmeasure word for livestock and game
- cabezaend of hammer, axe, golf club etc.
- giste (cerveza)foam on carbonated beverages
- directorheadmaster, headmistress
- directoraheadmaster, headmistress
- cabezaleader, chief, mastermind
- jefeleader, chief, mastermind
- líderleader, chief, mastermind
- adalidleader, chief, mastermind
- copaleafy top part of a tree
- cabezapart of the body
- cholapart of the body
- de cabezaof, relating to, or intended for the head
- encabezarto be in command of
- cabecearto strike with the head
- dirigirseto move in a specified direction
- irto move in a specified direction
Swahili mkuu, kichwa
- mkuuleader, chief, mastermind
- kichwapart of the body
Swedish huvud, förmåga
- huvudmental aptitude or skill
- förmågamental aptitude or skill
- huvudend of hammer, axe, golf club etc.
- bornyrfoam on carbonated beverages
- fradgafoam on carbonated beverages
- skumfoam on carbonated beverages
- rektorheadmaster, headmistress
- ledareleader, chief, mastermind
- chefleader, chief, mastermind
- direktörleader, chief, mastermind
- föreståndareleader, chief, mastermind
- kronaleafy top part of a tree
- ledato be in command of
- nickato strike with the head
- skallato strike with the head
- åkato move in a specified direction
- främstforemost in rank or importance
- förstforemost in rank or importance
- främstplaced at the top or the front
- förstplaced at the top or the front
Tagalog ulo
- ulopart of the body
Tamil தலைமை ஆசிரியர், தலைவர்
- தலைமை ஆசிரியர் (talaimai āciriyar)headmaster, headmistress
- தலைவர் (talaivar)headmaster, headmistress
- தலைவர் (talaivar)leader, chief, mastermind
- தலை (talai)part of the body
Thai ครูใหญ่, หัวหน้า
- ครูใหญ่ (kruu-yài)headmaster, headmistress
- หัวหน้า (hǔua-nâa)leader, chief, mastermind
- ผู้นำ (pûu-nam)leader, chief, mastermind
- ประมุข (bprà-múk)leader, chief, mastermind
- หัว (hǔua)part of the body
- ศีรษะ (sǐi-sà)part of the body
Turkish başak, baş
- başakear of cereal
- başpart of the body
- kafapart of the body
- başof, relating to, or intended for the head
- kafaof, relating to, or intended for the head
Ukrainian голова́, голо́вка
- голова́ (holová)individual person
- голо́вка (holóvka)end of hammer, axe, golf club etc.
- наконе́чник (nakonéčnyk)sharp end of an arrow, spear, or pointer
- ві́стря (vístrja)sharp end of an arrow, spear, or pointer
- голо́вка (holóvka)element which reads or writes electromagnetic signals to or from a storage medium
- голо́вка (holóvka)computing: part of a disk drive responsible for reading and writing data
- дире́ктор (dyréktor)headmaster, headmistress
- дире́кторка (dyréktorka)headmaster, headmistress
- голова́ (holová)leader, chief, mastermind
- керівни́к (kerivnýk)leader, chief, mastermind
- керівни́ця (kerivnýcja)leader, chief, mastermind
- голова́ (holová)part of the body
- очо́лювати (očóljuvaty)to be in command of
- очо́лити (očólyty)to be in command of
- прямува́ти (prjamuváty)to move in a specified direction
- попрямува́ти (poprjamuváty)to move in a specified direction
- направля́тися (napravljátysja)to move in a specified direction
- напра́витися (naprávytysja)to move in a specified direction
Urdu رَئِیس, سِر
- رَئِیسindividual person
- سِر (sir)part of the body
- سَر (sar)part of the body
Vietnamese con, đầu
- conmeasure word for livestock and game
- đầupart of the body
Welsh pen, pen
- penleader, chief, mastermind
- penpart of the body
Yiddish אויבנאָן, קאָפּ
- אויבנאָן (oybnon)place of honour, or of command; the most important or foremost position
- קאָפּ (kop)part of the body
- אויבנאָן (oybnon)end of a table
- קאָפּ (kop)blunt end of a nail, screw etc.
Zulu inhloko, ikhanda
- inhlokoleader, chief, mastermind
- ikhandapart of the body
- inhlokopart of the body
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with head
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