Head and Proprietor

Head

Head noun - The upper or front part of the body that contains the brain, the major sense organs, and the mouth.

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Proprietor and head are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Proprietor" instead a noun "Head".

Nearby Words: heading, headland, headship, headband, headed

Proprietor noun - One who has a legal or rightful claim to ownership.

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Head and proprietor are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Head" instead a noun "Proprietor".

old	old head	old proprietor
female	female head	female proprietor
original	original head	original proprietor
male	male head	male proprietor
Other adjectives: new, former, last, local, red, robotic.

Feet of Clay, the proprietor of the Dwarf Bread Museum is hit over the head with a loaf of bread (this is more serious than it sounds; dwarfs make bread to last, and not necessarily to be edible).

Source: Do Wrong, Right
That said, Franklin was a prominent member of the Assembly—being a leader of the anti-proprietary partynote Pennsylvania was a proprietary colony, i.e., the prerogatives of the Crown were exercised by a proprietor, which for Pennsylvania was the head of the Penn family.

Source: Beam Me Up Scotty / Politics
Bad Boss: In the 1981 and 1982 seasons, Barth, proprietor of Barth's Burgery, had a not-too-bright teenage employee named Zilch (Darryl Lucas) whom he routinely belittled, insulted, and hit upside the head with a frying pan.

Source: Series / You Can't Do That on Television

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