keyword

See also: key-word and key word

English

Alternative forms

• key word
• key-word

Etymology

From key +‎ word.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈkiː.wɜːd/

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• (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.
   • 1982, Popular Computing, volume 1, numbers 9-12, page 113:

     Each function has an entry address which must be quoted after the USR keyword.

   • 2017, Wisnu Anggoro, Learning C++ Functional Programming, page 8:

     Since C++11, the auto keyword is used to tell the compiler to deduce the actual type of a variable that is being declared from its initializer.

10. (linguistics) Any word that occurs in a text more often than normal.

    Coordinate terms: collocation, statistically improbable phrase

Derived terms

• keyword-driven testing
• keyword stuffing

 

Translations

word used as a key to a code

• Belarusian: ключаво́е сло́ва n (ključavóje slóva)
• Bulgarian: ключ (bg) m (ključ), клю́чова ду́ма f (kljúčova dúma)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 關鍵詞／关键词 (zh) (guānjiàncí), 關鍵字／关键字 (zh) (guānjiànzì)

• Czech: klíčové slovo n
• Danish: nøgleord (da) n
• Dutch: sleutelwoord (nl) n
• Finnish: avainsana (fi)
• French: mot-clé (fr) m
• German: Schlüsselwort (de) m, Passwort (de) n, Stichwort (de) n
• Greek: κλειδολέξη f (kleidoléxi), λέξη κλειδί (el) f (léxi kleidí)
• Hebrew: מִלַּת מַפְתֵּחַ m (milát maftéakh)
• Hungarian: kulcsszó (hu)
• Icelandic: markorð n, stikkorð n
• Ido: klefovorto
• Indonesian: kata sandi
• Italian: parola chiave f
• Japanese: キーワード (ja) (kīwādo)
• Korean: 키워드 (kiwodeu), 핵심어(核心語) (haeksimeo)
• Macedonian: клу́чен збор m (klúčen zbor)
• Malay: kata kunci
• Maori: kupu matua
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: nøkkelord n

  Nynorsk: nykelord n, nøkkelord n

• Persian: کلیدواژه (kelidvâže), واژۀ کلیدی (vâže-ye kelidi)
• Polish: słowo klucz n, słowo kluczowe n
• Portuguese: palavra-chave (pt) f
• Romanian: cuvânt-cheie (ro) n
• Russian: ключево́е сло́во (ru) n (ključevóje slóvo)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: кључна реч f, кључна ријеч f

  Roman: ključna reč f, ključna riječ f

• Slovak: kľúčové slovo n
• Slovene: ključna beseda f
• Spanish: palabra clave f, clave (es) f
• Swedish: nyckelord (sv) n
• Turkish: anahtar kelime (tr), anahtar sözcük (tr)
• Ukrainian: ключове́ сло́во n (ključové slóvo)

word used in a reference work to link to other words or other information

• Bulgarian: ключова дума f (ključova duma)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 關鍵詞／关键词 (zh) (guānjiàncí)

• Danish: opslagsord (da) n, stikord n
• Finnish: hakusana (fi)
• German: Stichwort (de) n
• Hebrew: מִלַּת מַפְתֵּחַ (hebrew script)
• Indonesian: kata kunci (id)
• Maori: kupu matua
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: nøkkelord n

  Nynorsk: nykelord n, nøkkelord n

• Romanian: cuvânt-cheie (ro) n
• Russian: ключево́е сло́во (ru) n (ključevóje slóvo)
• Swahili: neno la msingi
• Swedish: nyckelord (sv) n

programming: A reserved word used to identify a specific command, function etc.

• Dutch: sleutelwoord (nl) n
• German: Schlüsselwort (de) n
• Greek: λέξη κλειδί (el) f (léxi kleidí), λέξη-κλειδί (el) f (léxi-kleidí)
• Indonesian: kata kunci (id)
• Maori: kupumatua
• Polish: słowo klucz n
• Romanian: cuvânt-cheie (ro) n
• Turkish: anahtar söz

(linguistics) Any word that occurs in a text more often than normal.

• Indonesian: kata kunci (id)
• Maori: tino kupu

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} ĉeftermino, ^{(please verify)} ĉefvorto, ^{(please verify)} kategoria vorto, ^{(please verify)} ŝlosilvorto

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.
   • 2008 March 12, Philip Gefter, “Type in ‘Native American’ and Search (Someday) 13 Million Photos”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Besides being able to search the photography collections, of which 3,000 images have been scanned in so far, the feature is meant to provide a more subjective and spontaneous way for visitors to view the art: browsing images, looking at them sequentially and keywording, or tagging, them for themselves and other viewers.

Anagrams

• dyework

Italian

Noun

keyword m (invariable)

1. (computing) keyword