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


WordNet Lexical Database v3.0, © 2006 Princeton University