FORM CLASS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

One of the traditional categories of words intended to reflect their functions in a grammatical context

Synonyms:

form class; part of speech; word class

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("form class" is a kind of...):

grammatical category; syntactic category ((grammar) a category of words having the same grammatical properties)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "form class"):

major form class (any of the major parts of speech of traditional grammar)