HEADSHIP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does headship mean? 

• HEADSHIP (noun)
  The noun HEADSHIP has 2 senses:

1. the position of headmaster or headmistress

2. the position of head

  Familiarity information: HEADSHIP used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HEADSHIP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The position of headmaster or headmistress

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("headship" is a kind of...):

berth; billet; office; place; position; post; situation; spot (a job in an organization)

Domain region:

Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "headship"):

headmastership (the position of headmaster)

headmistressship (the position of headmistress)

Derivation:

head (the educator who has executive authority for a school)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The position of head

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("headship" is a kind of...):

berth; billet; office; place; position; post; situation; spot (a job in an organization)

Derivation:

head (a person who is in charge)

head (the educator who has executive authority for a school)

 Context examples 

Anne had no Uppercross Hall before her, no landed estate, no headship of a family; and if they could but keep Captain Wentworth from being made a baronet, she would not change situations with Anne.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)