Definitions for headband

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headband head·band

Spelling: [hed-band]

IPA: /ˈhɛdˌbænd/

Headband is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 150 anagrams from letters in headband (aabddehn).

Definitions for headband

noun

1. a band worn around the head; fillet.
2. Printing. a band for decorative effect at the head of a chapter or of a page in a book.
3. a band sewed or glued to the head or tail of the back of a book, or to both, often to protect and strengthen the binding but sometimes for decoration.

Origin of headband

First recorded in 1525-35; head + band²

Examples for headband

Graham pulled off his own headband and extended his hand for the other.

Morely looked again at the headband, then set it on his head.

Then, he reached up and fumbled for a moment with the controls at the front of the headband.

She closed the door and walked to the desk, removing the headband as she approached.

"You mean, this thing—" He paused, looking for a moment at Graham, then took the headband off.

She refused to engage on personal questions with a press corps that made a federal case of her headband.

But the crown itself (or headband or cluster of buds) screams disingenuous.

He removed his headband—called an ogal—and placed it on the table, a symbolic gesture to indicate the importance of the request.

“[M]any a headband was soon stained red,” noted a TIME cover story from 1964.

He pulled off his cap, tossed it to a chair, and replaced it with the headband.