headship

[ hed-ship ]

/ ˈhɛd ʃɪp /

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noun

the position of head or chief; chief authority; leadership; supremacy.

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Origin of headship

First recorded in 1575–85; head + -ship

Words nearby headship

headsaw, headscarf, head sea, headset, headsheet, headship, head shop, headshot, headshrinker, headsman, head smut

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How to use headship in a sentence

On the 4th of July she had conquered for herself the headship of that powerful brotherhood.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866|Various
Of all objects of human ambition, that headship was best worth struggling for.
History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2)|John William Draper
In connection with the headship of St Johns College there existed a rather curious custom.
Rowlandson's Oxford|A. Hamilton Gibbs
"Where the McGregor sits," he would affirm, "there is the head of the table," and so he cares nothing about the nominal headship.
A Midsummer Drive Through The Pyrenees|Edwin Asa Dix

You must cease in any case to retain the headship of the house, even for the few days of the term that remain.
Tom, Dick and Harry|Talbot Baines Reed

British Dictionary definitions for headship

headship

/ (ˈhɛdʃɪp) /

noun

the position or state of being a leader; command; leadership

education, British the position of headmaster or headmistress of a school

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