noun
Meaning 1
A decorative covering or ornament worn on the head.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
headdress
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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General-American: /ˈhɛdˌdɹɛs/
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CMU ARPABET: HH EH1 D R EH2 S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A hairdo.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
clothing for the head
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: headgear
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: clothing, article of clothing, vesture, wear, wearable, habiliment
Narrower terms: cap, hat, chapeau, lid, helmet, hood, jewelled headdress, jeweled headdress, kaffiyeh, miter, mitre, topknot, turban, wimple
History
Etymology
From head + dress.
Across languages
Translations
30 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Albanian: kezë — a decorative covering or ornament worn on the head
- Danish: hovedbeklædning — a decorative covering or ornament worn on the head
- Esperanto: kapvesto — a decorative covering or ornament worn on the head
- Finnish: päähine — a decorative covering or ornament worn on the head
- French: couvre-chef — a decorative covering or ornament worn on the head
- German: Kopfbedeckung — a decorative covering or ornament worn on the head
- Middle High German: gebende — a decorative covering or ornament worn on the head
- Hindi: शिरोभूषण (śirobhūṣaṇ) — a decorative covering or ornament worn on the head
- Hungarian: fejdísz — a decorative covering or ornament worn on the head
- Hungarian: fejék — a decorative covering or ornament worn on the head
- Icelandic: höfuðbúnaður — a decorative covering or ornament worn on the head
- Indonesian: bulang — a decorative covering or ornament worn on the head
- Irish: ceannbheart — a decorative covering or ornament worn on the head
- Kazakh: бас киім (bas kiım) — a decorative covering or ornament worn on the head
- Korean: 헤드드레스 (hedeudeureseu) — a decorative covering or ornament worn on the head
- Central Kurdish: پۆتەڵاک (potellak) — a decorative covering or ornament worn on the head
- Māori: hutukawa — a decorative covering or ornament worn on the head
- Mapudungun: perkiñ — a decorative covering or ornament worn on the head
- Norwegian Bokmål: hodepryd — a decorative covering or ornament worn on the head
- Old English: hēafodclāþ — a decorative covering or ornament worn on the head
- Polish: nakrycie głowy — a decorative covering or ornament worn on the head
- Russian: головно́й убо́р (golovnój ubór) — a decorative covering or ornament worn on the head
- Lower Sorbian: pókšyśe na głowu — a decorative covering or ornament worn on the head
- Upper Sorbian: wodźěće na hłowu — a decorative covering or ornament worn on the head
- Spanish: tocado — a decorative covering or ornament worn on the head
- Spanish: escofia — a decorative covering or ornament worn on the head
- Spanish: cofia — a decorative covering or ornament worn on the head
- Ottoman Turkish: باشلق (başlık) — a decorative covering or ornament worn on the head
- Ottoman Turkish: سرپوش (serpuş) — a decorative covering or ornament worn on the head
- Yámana: yakamuš-uška — a decorative covering or ornament worn on the head