Phrase guide
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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
A linguistic form class whose members are words.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
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Synonyms: lexical category
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A linguistic form or structure class whose members are words.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
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Synonyms: part of speech
Antonyms: none provided
noun
one of the traditional categories of words intended to reflect their functions in a grammatical context
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: part of speech, form class
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: grammatical category, syntactic category
Narrower terms: major form class
History
From word + class.
Across languages
3 source translations are retained for this English entry.
