word class

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English

Etymology

word +‎ class

Noun

word class (plural word classes)

  1. (linguistics) A linguistic form class whose members are words.
    Synonym: lexical category
    • 2012, James Lambert, “Beyond Hobson-Jobson: A new lexicography for Indian English”, in World Englishes‎, page 297:
      These lists differentiated terms according to word class (that is, a word with both a noun and adjective definition counted as two separate items in the list).
  2. (linguistics) A linguistic form or structure class whose members are words.
    Synonym: part of speech

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