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kwd

kwd is the abbreviation of keyword.

Meaning of keyword

Noun

keyword (plural keywords)

  1. Any word used as the key to a code.
    Synonyms:
    password, passcode
  2. Any word used in a reference work to link to other words or other information.
  3. Any important word in a text or document, which may be linked to other words or other information, or listed in the metadata for searches to find.
  4. A reserved word used to identify a specific command, function, etc.
    • Each function has an entry address which must be quoted after the USR keyword.1982, Popular Computing, volume 1, numbers 9-12, page 113
  5. Any word that occurs in a text more often than normal.

See all 6 meanings of keyword

Forms of kwd

pluralkwds

Questions about kwd

What is kwd the abbreviation of?
Kwd is the abbreviation of keyword.

Words near kwd in the dictionary

  1. kway teow
  2. Kwaza
  3. kwazoku
  4. KwaZulu
  5. KwaZulu-Natal
  6. kwd
  7. kwds
  8. Kwe
  9. kwedini
  10. kwedinis
  11. kwee

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Adapted from Wiktionary: kwd (page history and authors); keyword (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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