STRING OF WORDS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

A linear sequence of words as spoken or written

Synonyms:

linguistic string; string of words; word string

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("string of words" is a kind of...):

language; linguistic communication (a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols)

string (a linear sequence (as of characters, words, proteins, etc.))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "string of words"):

sentence (a string of words satisfying the grammatical rules of a language)

syntagm; syntagma (a syntactic string of words that forms a part of some larger syntactic unit)