WORD CLASS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

One of the traditional categories of words intended to reflect their functions in a grammatical context

Synonyms:

form class; part of speech; word class

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("word class" is a kind of...):

grammatical category; syntactic category ((grammar) a category of words having the same grammatical properties)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "word class"):

major form class (any of the major parts of speech of traditional grammar)

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