See headstead in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{ "etymology_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "head", "3": "stead" }, "expansion": "head + stead", "name": "compound" }, { "args": { "1": "ang", "2": "hēafodstede", "3": "", "4": "chief place; high place, sacred place" }, "expansion": "Old English hēafodstede (“chief place; high place, sacred place”)", "name": "cog" } ], "etymology_text": "From head + stead. Compare Old English hēafodstede (“chief place; high place, sacred place”).", "forms": [ { "form": "headsteads", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "headstead (plural headsteads)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ { "_dis": "64 26 9", "kind": "other", "name": "English entries with incorrect language header", "parents": [ "Entries with incorrect language header", "Entry maintenance" ], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "75 20 5", "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with 1 entry", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "86 10 4", "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with entries", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" } ], "glosses": [ "A place for the head, especially somewhere to lay or rest it; a headrest." ], "id": "en-headstead-en-noun-KMqQKC0c", "links": [ [ "place", "place" ], [ "headrest", "headrest" ] ] }, { "glosses": [ "A bolster or cushion for the head." ], "id": "en-headstead-en-noun-f8rA2kIR", "links": [ [ "bolster", "bolster" ], [ "cushion", "cushion" ] ] }, { "categories": [], "examples": [ { "ref": "1956, John Howard Griffin, Nuni:", "text": "He lies bundled up now between the quilts and blankets of his four-poster iron bed with its brass roses carved at the headstead.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1986, Danielle Steel, Thurston House:", "text": "He began to look at his watch now, every few minutes, and Camille was holding his arm with one hand and clutching the brass headstead on the bed with the other, shrieking whenever the pains came, which was most of the time now.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2012, William W. Johnstone, J. A. Johnstone, Savage Texas:", "text": "Bedsprings creaked and squealed, the posts of the brass-railed headstead hammering rhythmically against the wall [...]", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "The area at the head of the bed; headboard." ], "id": "en-headstead-en-noun-wY0~dbqk", "links": [ [ "headboard", "headboard" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(of a bed) The area at the head of the bed; headboard." ], "raw_tags": [ "of a bed" ] } ], "synonyms": [ { "_dis1": "0 0 0", "word": "head-stead" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0", "word": "head stead" } ], "word": "headstead" }
{ "categories": [ "English compound terms", "English countable nouns", "English entries with incorrect language header", "English lemmas", "English nouns", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries" ], "etymology_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "head", "3": "stead" }, "expansion": "head + stead", "name": "compound" }, { "args": { "1": "ang", "2": "hēafodstede", "3": "", "4": "chief place; high place, sacred place" }, "expansion": "Old English hēafodstede (“chief place; high place, sacred place”)", "name": "cog" } ], "etymology_text": "From head + stead. Compare Old English hēafodstede (“chief place; high place, sacred place”).", "forms": [ { "form": "headsteads", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "headstead (plural headsteads)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "glosses": [ "A place for the head, especially somewhere to lay or rest it; a headrest." ], "links": [ [ "place", "place" ], [ "headrest", "headrest" ] ] }, { "glosses": [ "A bolster or cushion for the head." ], "links": [ [ "bolster", "bolster" ], [ "cushion", "cushion" ] ] }, { "categories": [ "English terms with quotations", "Quotation templates to be cleaned" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1956, John Howard Griffin, Nuni:", "text": "He lies bundled up now between the quilts and blankets of his four-poster iron bed with its brass roses carved at the headstead.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1986, Danielle Steel, Thurston House:", "text": "He began to look at his watch now, every few minutes, and Camille was holding his arm with one hand and clutching the brass headstead on the bed with the other, shrieking whenever the pains came, which was most of the time now.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2012, William W. Johnstone, J. A. Johnstone, Savage Texas:", "text": "Bedsprings creaked and squealed, the posts of the brass-railed headstead hammering rhythmically against the wall [...]", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "The area at the head of the bed; headboard." ], "links": [ [ "headboard", "headboard" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(of a bed) The area at the head of the bed; headboard." ], "raw_tags": [ "of a bed" ] } ], "synonyms": [ { "word": "head-stead" }, { "word": "head stead" } ], "word": "headstead" }
Download raw JSONL data for headstead meaning in English (2.2kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.