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- hazelnut noun (a hazelnut, hazelnuts)
A hazelnut is the small, round, brown nut of the hazel tree, with a hard shell. - hazy adjective (hazy, hazier, haziest)
Not clear because of mist, smoke, dust or heat in the air: a hazy sky. - he pronoun (he — subject; him — object; his — possessive; himself — reflexive); noun (a he — a male, informal)
He is a word used for a boy, a man or a male animal who was already named, so you do not repeat the name. - head noun (head, heads); verb (head, heads, headed, heading); adjective (head teacher, head chef)
Your head is the top part of your body, with your eyes, nose, mouth, ears and brain. - headache noun (a headache, headaches)
1) A headache is a pain in your head. 2) A headache can also mean a problem that is annoying or hard to solve. - headband noun (a headband, headbands)
1) A headband is a band of cloth, plastic or elastic worn around the head or over the hair to keep hair or sweat away from the face, or… - headbutt verb (headbutt, headbutts, headbutted, headbutting); noun (a headbutt, headbutts)
1) To hit someone or something hard with the top or front of your head. 2) A headbutt is a hit like this. - headcount noun (a headcount, headcounts)
A headcount is a count of how many people are present, done by counting heads. - headdress noun (a headdress, headdresses)
1) A headdress is a special covering or decoration worn on the head, often for ceremonies, celebrations or as part of traditional dress. - header noun (a header, headers)
1) (football) Hitting the ball with your head. 2) Text at the top of every page of a document, such as the title or page number. 3)… - headfirst adverb (headfirst; also head first, head-first); adjective (a headfirst dive)
With your head going in front of the rest of your body. - headgear noun (headgear — uncountable)
Anything worn on the head, such as hats, helmets and caps. - heading noun (a heading, headings); verb form (head, heads, headed, heading)
A heading is the title at the top of a page, section or piece of writing that tells you what it is about. - headland noun (a headland, headlands)
1) A headland is a high piece of land with steep cliffs that sticks out into the sea. - headless adjective (headless)
Headless means having no head, like a headless statue or ghost. - headlight noun (a headlight, headlights)
1) A strong light at the front of a car, bus, bike, train or other vehicle that helps the driver see the road at night and lets others see… - headline noun (a headline, headlines); verb (headline, headlines, headlined, headlining)
The title printed in large letters above a story in a newspaper or on a news website. - headlong adverb; adjective
1) (adverb) Head first, with a fast rush, in a way that is not careful. 2) (adjective) Rushing forward very fast, without thinking first. - headmaster noun (a headmaster, headmasters)
1) A man in charge of a school (mainly UK, Ireland, Australia, NZ, and private schools). - headphone noun (headphones — usually plural; a pair of headphones; headphone used before another noun)
1) Headphones are a pair of small speakers worn over or in the ears to listen to music or sound without other people hearing it. - headquarters noun (headquarters — singular or plural; abbreviation HQ)
1) The main office or place from which a company, army, police force or organisation is run. - headrest noun (a headrest, headrests)
1) The padded part at the top of a seat, for example in a car, plane or chair, that supports the back of your head. - headscarf noun (a headscarf, headscarves or headscarfs)
1) A piece of cloth worn over the head and often tied under the chin or at the back, to cover the hair. - headset noun (a headset, headsets)
A pair of headphones, usually with a small microphone attached, so you can listen and speak. - headsman noun (headsmen)
Old use: a man whose job was to behead people with an axe or sword as a punishment. - headstone noun (a headstone, headstones)
A headstone is a stone set at the head of a grave, with the name of the person who died and often a short message. - headstrong adjective (headstronger, headstrongest)
Determined to have your own way and not willing to listen to others. - headwind noun (a headwind, headwinds)
A wind blowing straight towards you, against the way you are going, which slows you down. - headwinds noun (headwind, headwinds; plural usual in the figurative sense)
wind blowing towards you as you move, which slows you down. - heal verb (heal, heals, healed, healing)
To heal means to become healthy again after an injury, like a cut or broken bone getting better. - health noun (health, uncountable)
Health is how well your body and mind are working; being free from illness and injury. - healthcare noun (healthcare — uncountable)
1) Healthcare is the work of looking after people's health: doctors, nurses, hospitals, medicine and the help people get when they are ill… - healthier adjective, comparative (healthy, healthier, healthiest)
1) More healthy: in better health, or better for your health than something else. - healthy adjective (healthy, healthier, healthiest)
1) Healthy means well, strong and not ill. 2) Healthy food or habits help you stay well. 3) Healthy can mean good and normal: a healthy… - heap noun (heap, heaps); verb (heap, heaps, heaped, heaping)
A heap is a big untidy pile of things on top of each other. - hear verb (hear, hears, heard, hearing)
To notice sounds with your ears: "I hear a bird.". - heard verb (past and past participle of hear: hear, hears, heard, heard, hearing)
Heard means you noticed a sound with your ears in the past: I heard a bang. - hearer noun (a hearer, hearers)
A person who hears or listens to something, especially a speech, a story or a sermon. - hearing noun (hearing, uncountable; a hearing, hearings); verb form (-ing form of hear: hear, hears, heard, hearing)
Hearing is the sense that lets you notice sounds, using your ears. - hearken verb (hearken, hearkens, hearkened, hearkening); also spelled harken
1) (old-fashioned) To listen carefully. 2) (hearken back to) To go back to or remind people of something from the past. - hearsay noun (hearsay — uncountable)
Things you have heard from other people but do not know are true; rumour. - hearse noun (hearses)
A car or carriage that carries a coffin to a funeral. - heart noun (a heart, hearts)
The organ in your chest that pumps blood around your body. - heartbeat noun (heartbeat, heartbeats)
A heartbeat is one beat of the heart as it pumps blood. - heartbreak noun (heartbreak, heartbreaks; usually uncountable)
Heartbreak is very great sadness, especially when someone you love leaves you, dies, or when you lose something important. - heartbroken adjective (heartbroken)
1) Extremely sad, usually because someone you love has died or left, or because of a great disappointment. - heartburn noun (heartburn, uncountable)
Heartburn is a burning, painful feeling in the chest or throat, caused when acid from the stomach comes back up. - heartfelt adjective (heartfelt)
1) Heartfelt means deeply and sincerely felt, coming truly from the heart. - hearth noun (a hearth, hearths)
A hearth is the floor of a fireplace and the area just in front of it, where the fire burns. - hearthrug noun (a hearthrug, hearthrugs)
1) A rug laid on the floor in front of a fireplace. - hearthstone noun (hearthstones)
A flat stone in front of a fireplace; in old use it stands for the home and the fireside. - heartily adverb
With a lot of energy, warmth and enjoyment, as in «laughed heartily» or «ate heartily». - heartiness noun (uncountable)
1) Warmth, friendliness and cheerful energy. 2) Strength and good health. 3) (of food) Being large, filling and satisfying. - heartless adjective
1) Cruel and unkind; not caring about other people's feelings: a heartless thing to say. - heartstrings noun (plural)
1) Your deepest feelings of love and sympathy. 2) (in the phrase «tug at/pull at someone's heartstrings») To make someone feel very sorry… - hearty adjective (hearty, heartier, heartiest)
Loud, cheerful and friendly: a hearty laugh, a hearty welcome. - heat noun (heat — uncountable; a heat, heats — race rounds); verb (heat, heats, heated, heating)
1) Heat is warmth, the feeling of being hot. 2) Heat is energy that moves from hot things to cooler things. 3) To heat something is to… - heatedly adverb (heatedly)
1) In an angry, excited way, with strong feelings, especially in an argument. - heater noun (a heater, heaters)
1) A heater is a machine that makes a room, a car, water or something else warm. 2) It often works with electricity, gas or oil. - heath noun (a heath, heaths)
1) A heath is a large area of open, wild land with poor soil, covered with low plants like heather, gorse and grasses, and few trees. - heathen noun (heathens); adjective
Old use: a person who does not follow one of the main world religions, often one who worships other gods. - heatstroke noun (heatstroke — uncountable; also heat stroke)
1) A dangerous illness when your body gets far too hot (from hot sun or hard exercise in heat) and cannot cool itself down; it can cause… - heave verb (heave, heaves, heaved, heaving; hove in sailing); noun (a heave, heaves)
To lift, pull or push something heavy with great effort: they heaved the box into the van. - heaven noun (heaven, heavens; also Heaven)
In many religions, the place where God or gods live and where good people are believed to go after they die. - heavenly adjective (heavenly, more heavenly, most heavenly)
Heavenly means belonging to heaven or to God, as in «heavenly Father» or «the heavenly host» of angels. - heavenwards adverb (also heavenward)
1) Heavenwards means upwards, towards the sky or heaven. - heaves verb form (heave, heaves, heaved, heaving — sailors also use hove); noun (plural of heave; the heaves)
Lifts, pulls or throws something heavy with great effort. - heavily adverb (heavily)
Heavily means in a heavy way: with great weight or force. - heaviness noun (no plural in common use)
1) Heaviness is the state of being heavy, in weight or in feeling. 2) Heaviness can mean a dull, sad feeling in the mind or body. - heaving adjective (heaving); verb form (heave, heaves, heaved / hove, heaving); noun (heaving)
Pulling, pushing or lifting something heavy with a lot of effort. - heavy adjective (heavy, heavier, heaviest); adverb (heavily)
1) Heavy means weighing a lot and hard to lift. 2) Heavy means a lot of, or strong: heavy rain, heavy traffic. 3) A heavy meal is one that… - heavyset adjective (also heavy-set)
1) Heavyset describes a person with a large, solid, broad body, often strong and a bit heavy. 2) Built big and sturdy. - hebrew noun (Hebrew — the language; a Hebrew — old word for an Israelite); adjective (Hebrew)
1) Hebrew is the ancient language of the Jewish people, in which most of the Old Testament (the Hebrew Bible) was written; modern Hebrew… - hebrews noun (Hebrews — proper noun; Hebrew, the Hebrews)
The Hebrews were the ancient people of Israel, the people of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Moses. - heck exclamation (heck!); noun (heck: «what the heck», «a heck of a»)
an exclamation of annoyance or surprise, a soft stand-in for «hell». - heckle verb (heckle, heckles, heckled, heckling); noun (a heckle, heckles)
To heckle means to shout rude or annoying comments at someone who is speaking or performing in public, to interrupt them. - heckling noun (heckling — uncountable); verb form (heckle, heckles, heckled, heckling)
Shouting rude remarks or questions to interrupt someone who is speaking or performing in public, such as a comedian or politician. - hectare noun (a hectare, hectares)
1) (maths) A metric unit of area equal to 10,000 square metres, the size of a square 100 metres by 100 metres; symbol ha. - hedge noun (a hedge, hedges); verb (hedge, hedges, hedged, hedging)
A hedge is a row of bushes or small trees growing close together, forming a living fence. - hedgehog noun (a hedgehog, hedgehogs)
1) A hedgehog is a small wild animal with a pointed nose and a back covered in sharp spines, which rolls into a ball when frightened. - hedgerow noun (a hedgerow, hedgerows)
1) A row of bushes, shrubs and small trees growing along the edge of a field or a country lane. - heed verb (heed, heeds, heeded, heeding); noun (heed; uncountable)
To heed advice or a warning is to pay attention to it and do what it says. - heedless adjective (heedless)
Not paying attention to something, especially to a warning or danger; careless. - heel noun (a heel, heels); verb (heel, heels, heeled, heeling)
1) The back part of your foot under the ankle. 2) The part of a shoe or sock under the back of the foot; «heels» can mean shoes with high… - heifer noun (a heifer, heifers)
1) A young female cow that has not yet had a calf (or has had only one). - height noun (height, heights)
Height is how tall a person or thing is, from the bottom to the top. - heighten verb (heighten, heightens, heightened, heightening)
To make a feeling, effect or danger stronger or greater. - heir noun (an heir, heirs)
A person who will receive someone's money, house or other property when that person dies, as in «She is heir to the farm». - helicopter noun (a helicopter, helicopters); verb (helicopter, helicopters, helicoptered — rare)
A helicopter is an aircraft with big spinning blades on top, which lets it go straight up, straight down and hover in one place. - helium noun (helium — uncountable)
A very light gas with no colour or smell that is lighter than air; it is used to fill party balloons and airships so they float. - hell noun (uncountable; also interjection — rude)
In some religions, a place where bad people are believed to go after death to be punished. - hellenic adjective (Hellenic)
To do with Greece and the Greek people, language and culture, especially ancient Greece. - hello exclamation (hello); noun (a hello, hellos); verb (hello, helloed — rare)
A word you say when you meet someone or answer the phone. - helm noun (helms)
1) The helm is the wheel or handle used to steer a ship or boat. 2) To be at the helm means to be in charge of something. - helmet noun (helmet, helmets)
A helmet is a hard hat that keeps your head safe when you ride a bike, scooter or horse, or play some sports. - helmsman noun (helmsmen)
1) A helmsman is the person who steers a ship or boat. - helot noun (a helot, helots)
A helot was one of the people in ancient Sparta who were made to work the land for the Spartans, almost like slaves, and could not leave. - help verb (help, helps, helped, helping); noun (help — uncountable; a helping, helpings — a serving); exclamation (Help!)
To help is to do something for someone so their work is easier. - helpdesk noun (a helpdesk, helpdesks; also help desk)
1) A helpdesk is a service, desk or phone line where people answer questions and fix problems, especially with computers. - helper noun (a helper, helpers)
A helper is a person who helps someone do a job.
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