keyword

English Online Dictionary. What means keyword‎? What does keyword mean?

English

Alternative forms

• key word
• key-word

Etymology

From key +‎ word.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈkiː.wɜːd/
• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈki.wɝd/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)d

Noun

keyword (plural keywords)

2. (cryptography) Any word used as the key to a code.

   Synonyms: password, passcode

   Coordinate term: keyphrase

4. (information science) Any word used in a reference work to link to other words or other information.
6. (information science) Any important word in a text or document, which may be linked to other words or other information, or at least merely listed in the metadata for searches to find.

   Synonyms: operative word, workword

   Hypernym: keystring

   Coordinate term: keyphrase

8. (programming) A reserved word used to identify a specific command, function, etc.
10. (linguistics) Any word that occurs in a text more often than normal.

    Coordinate terms: collocation, statistically improbable phrase

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See also

• (information science): index term
• (information science): descriptor

Verb

keyword (third-person singular simple present keywords, present participle keywording, simple past and past participle keyworded)

1. (transitive) To tag with keywords, as for example to facilitate searching.

Anagrams

• dyework

Italian

Noun

keyword m (invariable)

1. (computing) keyword