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BNC: 24462 COCA: 20200

arrowhead

1 ENTRIES FOUND:
arrowhead /ˈeroʊˌhɛd/ noun
plural arrowheads
arrowhead
/ˈeroʊˌhɛd/
noun
plural arrowheads
Learner's definition of ARROWHEAD
[count]
: a piece of stone or metal that forms the point of an arrow箭头;箭链
BNC: 24462 COCA: 20200

arrowhead

noun

ar·​row·​head ˈer-ō-ˌhed How to pronounce arrowhead (audio)
ˈer-ə-,
ˈa-rō-,
ˈa-rə-
1
: a wedge-shaped piercing tip usually fixed to an arrow
2
: something resembling an arrowhead
3
: any of a genus (Sagittaria) of marsh or aquatic plants of the water-plantain family with leaves shaped like arrowheads

Illustration of arrowhead

Illustration of arrowhead
  • arrowhead 1

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web Edge nails form a point, but the point is not as long as a stiletto shape or as aggressive as an arrowhead. Kristi Kellogg, Allure, 20 July 2022 Near the Iron Age shoe and along the trails in and out of the pass, Pilø and his colleagues found a 2,000-year-old arrowhead made of reindeer antler and etched with a pair of zigzag lines. Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 26 Apr. 2022 This arrowhead, made of reindeer antler and probably also used to hunt reindeer, radiocarbon-dates to 2,000-3,000 years ago. Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 26 Apr. 2022 Winter alerts were already up on Monday morning, stretching from the Pacific Northwest coast to the arrowhead of Minnesota. NBC News, 11 Apr. 2022 James Starnes, director of Surface Geology and Surface Mapping for the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality, discovered an even more surprising fact: the stone wasn’t an arrowhead. Peter Aitken, Fox News, 12 Sep. 2021 Inside, the gator were two stones that turned out to be a broken arrowhead and a plummet, which is a type of fishing weight used by Native Americans, historians say. Tribune News Service, al, 11 Sep. 2021 On the White House grounds, bits of pottery and arrowhead points were found in the 1970s. Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2021 Amell shared a photo of the simple new ink — an outline of an arrowhead, to the side of his elbow, and pointing upwards — on Sunday. Jolie Lash, EW.com, 12 Sep. 2021 See More

Word History

Etymology

Middle English arowe-heed, from arowe arrow entry 1 + heed head entry 1

First Known Use

14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of arrowhead was in the 14th century
BNC: 24462 COCA: 20200

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