entry word in English
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a word, phrase, or name that is the subject of and heading for an entry in a dictionary, glossary, or encyclopedia, and is usually set in boldface or another distinctive type; a headword or lemma.
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1. Contemplation of See full entry Word Origin Middle English: from Old French, from Latin contemplatio(n-) , from the verb contemplari , based on templum ‘place for observation’.
2. Accomplice to See full entry Word Origin mid 16th cent.: alteration (probably by association with accompany ) of Middle English complice ‘an associate’, via Old French from late Latin complex , complic- ‘allied’, from com- ‘together’ + the root of plicare ‘to fold’.