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- S: (n) 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"
- S: (n) anagram
(a word or phrase spelled by rearranging the
letters of another word or phrase)
- S: (n) anaphor
(a word (such as a pronoun) used to avoid
repetition; the referent of an anaphor is
determined by its antecedent)
- S: (n) antonym,
opposite word, opposite (a word that expresses a
meaning opposed to the meaning of another word, in
which case the two words are antonyms of each
other) "to him the antonym of `gay' was
`depressed'"
- S: (n)
back-formation (a word invented (usually
unwittingly by subtracting an affix) on the
assumption that a familiar word derives from it)
- S: (n) charade
(a word acted out in an episode of the game of
charades)
- S: (n) cognate,
cognate word (a word is cognate with another if
both derive from the same word in an ancestral
language)
- S: (n) content
word, open-class word (a word to which an
independent meaning can be assigned)
- S: (n)
contraction (a word formed from two or more words
by omitting or combining some sounds) "`won't' is
a contraction of `will not'"; "`o'clock' is a
contraction of `of the clock'"
- S: (n) deictic,
deictic word (a word specifying identity or
spacial or temporal location from the perspective
of a speaker or hearer in the context in which the
communication occurs) "words that introduce
particulars of the speaker's and hearer's shared
cognitive field into the message"- R.Rommetveit
- S: (n)
derivative ((linguistics) a word that is derived
from another word) "`electricity' is a derivative
of `electric'"
- S: (n)
diminutive (a word that is formed with a suffix
(such as -let or -kin) to indicate smallness)
- S: (n) dirty
word (a word that is considered to be
unmentionable) "`failure' is a dirty word to him"
- S: (n)
disyllable, dissyllable (a word having two
syllables)
- S: (n) form,
word form, signifier, descriptor (the phonological
or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that
can be used to describe or identify something)
"the inflected forms of a word can be represented
by a stem and a list of inflections to be
attached"
- S: (n)
four-letter word, four-letter Anglo-Saxon word
(any of several short English words (often having
4 letters) generally regarded as obscene or
offensive)
- S: (n) function
word, closed-class word (a word that is
uninflected and serves a grammatical function but
has little identifiable meaning)
- S: (n) guide
word, guideword, catchword (a word printed at the
top of the page of a dictionary or other reference
book to indicate the first or last item on that
page)
- S: (n) head,
head word ((grammar) the word in a grammatical
constituent that plays the same grammatical role
as the whole constituent)
- S: (n) headword
(a word placed at the beginning of a line or
paragraph (as in a dictionary entry))
- S: (n) heteronym
(two words are heteronyms if they are spelled the
same way but differ in pronunciation (e.g. `bow'))
- S: (n) holonym,
whole name (a word that names the whole of which a
given word is a part) "`hat' is a holonym for
`brim' and `crown'"
- S: (n) homonym
(two words are homonyms if they are pronounced or
spelled the same way but have different meanings)
- S: (n) hypernym,
superordinate, superordinate word (a word that is
more generic than a given word)
- S: (n) hyponym,
subordinate, subordinate word (a word that is more
specific than a given word)
- S: (n) key word
(a significant word used in indexing or
cataloging)
- S: (n) loanblend,
loan-blend, hybrid (a word that is composed of
parts from different languages (e.g.,
`monolingual' has a Greek prefix and a Latin
root))
- S: (n) loanword,
loan (a word borrowed from another language; e.g.
`blitz' is a German word borrowed into modern
English)
- S: (n) meronym,
part name (a word that names a part of a larger
whole) "`brim' and `crown' are meronyms of `hat'"
- S: (n) metonym
(a word that is used metonymically; a word that
denotes one thing but refers to a related thing)
- S: (n)
monosyllable, monosyllabic word (a word or
utterance of one syllable)
- S: (n)
neologism, neology, coinage (a newly invented word
or phrase)
- S: (n) nonce
word, hapax legomenon (a word with a special
meaning used for a special occasion)
- S: (n) oxytone
(word having stress or an acute accent on the last
syllable)
- S: (n)
palindrome (a word or phrase that reads the same
backward as forward)
- S: (n) primitive
(a word serving as the basis for inflected or
derived forms) "`pick' is the primitive from which
`picket' is derived"
- S: (n)
paroxytone (word having stress or acute accent on
the next to last syllable)
- S: (n) partitive
(word (such a `some' or `less') that is used to
indicate a part as distinct from a whole)
- S: (n)
polysemant, polysemantic word, polysemous word (a
word having more than one meaning)
- S: (n)
polysyllable, polysyllabic word (a word of more
than three syllables)
- S: (n)
proparoxytone (word having stress or acute accent
on the antepenult)
- S: (n)
quantifier ((grammar) a word that expresses a
quantity (as `fifteen' or `many'))
- S: (n)
quantifier, logical quantifier ((logic) a word
(such as `some' or `all' or `no') that binds the
variables in a logical proposition)
- S: (n)
reduplication (a word formed by or containing a
repeated syllable or speech sound (usually at the
beginning of the word))
- S: (n) retronym
(a word introduced because an existing term has
become inadequate) "Nobody ever heard of analog
clocks until digital clocks became common, so
`analog clock' is a retronym"
- S: (n)
substantive (a noun or a pronoun that is used in
place of a noun)
- S: (n) synonym,
equivalent word (two words that can be
interchanged in a context are said to be
synonymous relative to that context)
- S: (n) term (a
word or expression used for some particular thing)
"he learned many medical terms"
- S: (n)
terminology, nomenclature, language (a system of
words used to name things in a particular
discipline) "legal terminology"; "biological
nomenclature"; "the language of sociology"
- S: (n)
trisyllable (a word having three syllables)
- S: (n) troponym,
manner name (a word that denotes a manner of doing
something) "`march' is a troponym of `walk'"
- S: (n) vocable,
spoken word (a word that is spoken aloud)
- S: (n)
classifier (a word or morpheme used in some
languages in certain contexts (such as counting)
to indicate the semantic class in which an item
belongs)
- S: (n) written
word (the written form of a word) "while the
spoken word stands for something, the written word
stands for something that stands for something";
"a craftsman of the written word"
- S: (n)
syncategorem, syncategoreme (a syncategorematic
expression; a word that cannot be used alone as a
term in a logical proposition) "logical
quantifiers, adverbs, prepositions, and
conjunctions are called syncategoremes
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