word
a unit of language that native speakers can identify
"words are the blocks from which sentences are made"; "he hardly said ten words all morning"Type of:- language unit; linguistic unit
Types:- anagram
- anaphor
- antonym; opposite word; opposite
- back-formation
- charade
- cognate; cognate word
- content word; open-class word
- contraction
- deictic; deictic word
- derivative
- diminutive
- dirty word
- disyllable; dissyllable
- form; word form; signifier; descriptor
- four-letter word; four-letter Anglo-Saxon word
- function word; closed-class word
- guide word; guideword; catchword
- head; head word
- headword
- heteronym
- holonym; whole name
- homonym
- hypernym; superordinate; superordinate word
- hyponym; subordinate; subordinate word
- key word
- loanblend; loan-blend; hybrid
- loanword; loan
- meronym; part name
- metonym
- monosyllable; monosyllabic word
- neologism; neology; coinage
- nonce word; hapax legomenon
- oxytone
- palindrome
- primitive
- paroxytone
- partitive
- polysemant; polysemantic word; polysemous word
- polysyllable; polysyllabic word
- proparoxytone
- quantifier
- quantifier; logical quantifier
- reduplication
- retronym
- substantive
- synonym; equivalent word
- term
- terminology; nomenclature; language
- trisyllable
- troponym; manner name
- vocable; spoken word
- classifier
- written word
- syncategorem; syncategoreme
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