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OPEN-CLASS WORD
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A word to which an independent meaning can be assigned
Synonyms:
content word; open-class word
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("open-class word" is a kind of...):
word (a unit of language that native speakers can identify)
Meronyms (parts of "open-class word"):
lexical meaning (the meaning of a content word that depends on the nonlinguistic concepts it is used to express)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "open-class word"):
head word; headword (a content word that can be qualified by a modifier)
noun (a content word that can be used to refer to a person, place, thing, quality, or action)
verb (a content word that denotes an action, occurrence, or state of existence)
modifier; qualifier (a content word that qualifies the meaning of a noun or verb)
