head-to-head

See also: head to head

English

Alternative forms

• head to head

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌhɛd tu ˈhɛd/, /ˌhɛd tə ˈhɛd/

Adjective

head-to-head (comparative more head-to-head, superlative most head-to-head)

1. Direct, one-to-one.
   • 2006 July 11, Dan Reed, “At 35, Southwest's strategy gets more complicated”, in USA Today:

     For years, Southwest sought to avoid head-to-head competition with big, traditional airlines.

   • 2025 October 1, Megan Forrester, “2025 Fat Bear Week winner announced: See who was named 'beefiest bruin'”, in ABC News‎^[1]:

     Fat Bear Week, which started in 2014, is an annual competition where brown bears from Alaska's Katmai National Park face off in head-to-head matchups -- similar to a March Madness bracket -- with people around the world voting for who they believe is the fattest of the bunch, the National Park Service said in a press release.

Adverb

head-to-head (not comparable)

1. Facing one another.
2. Directly, one-to-one.

Synonyms

• tête-à-tête

Coordinate terms

• arm-in-arm
• back-to-back
• cheek-by-jowl
• cheek-to-cheek
• ear-to-ear
• elbow-to-elbow
• end-to-end
• eye-to-eye
• face-to-face
• hand-to-hand
• mouth-to-mouth
• nose-to-nose
• shoulder-to-shoulder
• side-by-side
• toe-to-toe

Translations

head-to-head

• Arabic: وَجْهًا لِوَجْه (wajhan li-wajh)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 面對面 / 面对面 (zh) (miànduìmiàn), 當面 / 当面 (zh) (dāngmiàn)

• French: tête-à-tête (fr)
• German: tête-à-tête (de), unter vier Augen (de)
• Japanese: 内緒の (ja) (ないしょの, naisho-no), 二人っきり (ふたりっきり, futarikkiri), 相対の (ja) (あいたいの, aitai-no)
• Polish: bezpośrednio (pl)
• Russian: тет-а-те́т (ru) (tɛt-a-tɛ́t), с гла́зу на́ глаз (ru) (s glázu ná glaz)
• Spanish: cabeza a cabeza
• Ukrainian: віч-на́-віч (vič-ná-vič), сам на́ сам (sam ná sam), тет-а-те́т (uk) (tet-a-tét)