content word vs head word

content word and head word both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
content word	Yes	No	No	No
head word	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, head word is a hyponym of content word; that is, head word is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than content word:

content word: a word to which an independent meaning can be assigned
head word: a content word that can be qualified by a modifier

Other hyponyms of content word include headword, noun, verb, modifier, qualifier, numeral.

content word (noun)	head word (noun)
a word to which an independent meaning can be assigned	(grammar) the word in a grammatical constituent that plays the same grammatical role as the whole constituent
	a content word that can be qualified by a modifier

content word vs head word

content word and head word both are nouns.

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