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ANAPHOR
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A word (such as a pronoun) used to avoid repetition; the referent of an anaphor is determined by its antecedent
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("anaphor" is a kind of...):
word (a unit of language that native speakers can identify)