headgear

English

Various headgear items.

Etymology

From head +‎ gear.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɛdɡɪə(ɹ)/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Noun

headgear (countable and uncountable, plural headgears)

1. (uncountable) Anything worn on the head, such as a hat, hood, helmet, etc.
   • 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 296:

     Grey hairs straggled out from under her head-gear, which surrounded a dark face with bushy eyebrows and a long knotted nose.

2. The harness that fits on a horse's head.
3. The lifting gear at the head of a mine or deep well.
4. (nautical) The rigging on the foresail.
5. (orthodontics) A type of orthodontic appliance attached to dental braces that aids in correcting severe bite problems.

Synonyms

• (clothing): headdress, headwear; see also Thesaurus:headwear
• (harness on a horse's head): bridle

Translations

anything worn on the head

• Azerbaijani: baş geyimi
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 帽子 (zh) (màozi), 頭巾／头巾 (zh) (tóujīn)

• Czech: (single item) pokrývka hlavy f
• Finnish: päähine (fi)
• French: couvre-chef (fr) m
• German: Kopfbedeckung (de) f
• Hebrew: כִּסּוּי רֹאשׁ (he) m (kisúy rosh)
• Hungarian: fejfedő (hu)
• Icelandic: höfuðbúnaður m
• Irish: ceannbheart m or f
• Italian: copricapo (it), cappuccio (it) m, cappello (it) m, bandana (it) f
• Japanese: 帽子 (ja) (ぼうし, bōshi), ヘッドギア (heddogia), 頭巾 (ja) (ずきん, zukin)
• Kazakh: бас киім (bas kiım), баскиім (baskiım)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: پۆتەڵاک (potellak)

• Maori: paraehe
• Ottoman Turkish: باشلق (başlık), سرپوش (serpuş)
• Portuguese: acessório para a cabeça m
• Russian: головно́й убо́р (ru) m (golovnój ubór)
• Spanish: prenda para la cabeza f, accesorio para la cabeza m, sombrero (es) m (hat), escofia f, cofia (es) f
• Swedish: huvudbonad (sv) c

harness that fits on a horse's head

• Bulgarian: оглавник (bg) m (oglavnik)
• Finnish: päitset (fi) pl
• German: Zaumzeug (de) n
• Italian: imbragatura (it) f, imbracatura (it) f
• Maori: paraehe, paraire
• Spanish: brida (es) f

lifting gear at the head of a mine

rigging on the foresail

Anagrams

• Heegaard, gear head, gearhead