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headed

adjectiveverbadjectivecommon in dialogue

  • //ˈhɛdɪd//

Of a sheet of paper: having the sender's name, address, etc. preprinted at the top.

adjective

  1. 1

    Of a sheet of paper: having the sender's name, address, etc. preprinted at the top.

  2. 2

    Having a head or brain with specified characteristics.

    a large-headed caricature of a politician

    a mad-headed young man

    a fireman's pick-headed axe

  3. 3

    Having hair of a specified color.

  4. 4

    Having been headed: having had a head formed (by deformation such as die-stamping).

Etymology

Etymology tree substratebor.? Proto-Indo-European *kap-? Proto-Indo-European *kap- Proto-Indo-European *káput Proto-Germanic *haubudą Old English hēafod Middle English heed English head English -ed English headed From head (“noun”) + -ed.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of headsimple past and past participle of head

    Smith headed the team last summer.

    We headed toward the ocean.

Etymology

See head (verb).

adjective

  1. 1

    Heading in a certain direction.

    southward-headed caravans

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).