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GRAMMATICAL MEANING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The meaning of a word that depends on its role in a sentence; varies with inflectional form
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("grammatical meaning" is a kind of...):
import; meaning; significance; signification (the message that is intended or expressed or signified)
Holonyms ("grammatical meaning" is a part of...):
closed-class word; function word (a word that is uninflected and serves a grammatical function but has little identifiable meaning)