citation form

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   the form of a word that heads a lexical entry and is alphabetized in a dictionary

   Synonymsmain entry wordentry word

   Broaderform

   Part oflexical entry

Questions about citation form

What does citation form mean?

citation form means "the form of a word that heads a lexical entry and is alphabetized in a dictionary".

What is another word for citation form?

Close synonyms include main entry word, entry word. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is citation form a common word?

citation form is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.